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Friday, August 9, 1963
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The Headlines
TREASURY AGREES TO TAX CUT PLAN; 2-Step 11-Billion Reduction Proposed for Individual and Corporate Income Levies Rates 15 to 75 Per Cent New Bracket Suggested TREASURY AGREES TO TAX CUT PLAN
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
Cleopatra †
The must-have
Easy-Bake Oven
You Share a Birthday With
- Whitney Houston (1963)
- Jean Piaget (1896)
- Romano Prodi (1939)
- Amedeo Avogadro (1776)
- Leonid Kuchma (1938)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
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
22,946 days ago
(62 years, 316 days)