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Wednesday, July 31, 1963

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The Headlines

WAGNER EXTENDS CIVIL RIGHTS TALKS ON JOB PRACTICES; CORE Chief Calls Opening City Hall Session 'Good'-- Panel of 10 to Confer MORE PICKETS ARRESTED 31 Seized Near Brooklyn Center and 9 in Queens-- 18 Children Picked Up Wagner Extends Rights Talks On Finding Jobs for Negroes Plasterers Quit Jobs City Aides to Abstain Core Sit-In Goes On

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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

22,955 days ago

(62 years, 325 days)