Monday, November 18, 1963

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The Headlines

FLUORIDE BATTLE TO RESUME TODAY; APPROVAL LIKELY; Public Hearing to Be Held on Plan Backed by Wagner to Reduce Tooth Decay FOES SEEK REFERENDUM Proponents Ask Funds for 9 Plants to Put Compound Into Drinking Water Better Teeth the Aim Votes in Favor Rise Battle to Resume Today on City's Plan to Fluoridate Water MAYOR EXPECTED TO WIN LONG FIGHT Proposal Would Allot Funds to Construct 9 Plants in Drive on Tooth Decay Rebuttal Expected Opposition Continues An 'Insidious Poison' Not Like Radiation Aluminum Studied Enthusiasts Impatient Urged Here in 1952 Disputed Reports More Drinking Helps Experiments Discredited

#1 at the box office

Cleopatra †

The must-have

Easy-Bake Oven

On This Day

• The Bell Telephone Company introduces the first push-button telephone.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Margaret Atwood (1939)
• Louis Daguerre (1787)
• Carl Maria von Weber (1786)
• Patrick Blackett (1897)
• Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1960)