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Tuesday, August 20, 1963
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The Headlines
PAYMENTS DEFICIT AT 5 BILLION HIGH; Annual Rate in 2d Quarter Up 2 Billion--Securities Tax Plan Gets Impetus Preliminary Estimates PAYMENTS DEFICIT AT 5 BILLION HIGH
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
Cleopatra †
The must-have
Easy-Bake Oven
You Share a Birthday With
- Benjamin Harrison (1833)
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890)
- Rajiv Gandhi (1944)
- Slobodan Milošević (1941)
- Salvatore Quasimodo (1901)
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
22,935 days ago
(62 years, 305 days)