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Monday, June 17, 1963

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The Headlines

SOVIET ORBITS WOMAN ASTRONAUT NEAR BYKOVSKY FOR DUAL FLIGHT; THEY TALK BY RADIO, ARE PUT ON TV; PREMIER IS JOYFUL Phones Spacewoman --She Tells World She Feels Fine Saw Colonel Launched Purpose of Flights 'Seagull' and 'Hawk' Soviet Sends a Woman Astronaut Into Orbit Close to Col. Bykovsky for Dual Flight THEY CONVERSE; BOTH SEEN ON TV She Says She Feels Fine --Khrushchev Talks to Her From the Kremlin Lieutenant Replies

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#1 at the box office

How the West Was Won

The must-have

Easy-Bake Oven

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bummerfoxhunkscam

Hippie

flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on

Surfer

cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly

Catchphrases of 1963

  • I have a dream

Tech Check

Touch-Tone Phone, Computer Mouse (Prototype) & Instant Replay.

Cost of Living (1960)

Loaf of Bread

$0.20

Gallon of Gas

$0.31

Average Home

$11,900

New Car

$2,600

Time Elapsed

22,999 days ago

(63 years, 4 days)