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Sunday, March 1, 1964
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The Headlines
The Week in Finance; Attention Is Focusing on the Probable Effects of Tax Cut—Stocks Up a Bit
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
Tom Jones
The must-have
G.I. Joe
On This Day
Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
Wikipedia →Paradise Airlines Flight 901A crashes near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, killing 85.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Frédéric Chopin (1810)
- Yitzhak Rabin (1922)
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892)
- Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956)
- Harry Belafonte (1927)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
Tech Check
BASIC Programming Language, IBM System/360 & Word Processor.
Cost of Living (1960)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
22,741 days ago
(62 years, 111 days)