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Monday, May 25, 1964
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The Headlines
U.S.FINDS UNIONS GAINING MEMBERS, REVERSING TREND; An Increase of 283,000 to 16,586,000 in '62 Alters a FiveYear Pattern; FEDERAL AIDES ENROLL; But Factory Roster Is Down —Only a Slight Rise Noted in White‐Collar Field
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
What a Way to Go!
The must-have
G.I. Joe
You Share a Birthday With
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803)
- Pieter Zeeman (1865)
- Ian McKellen (1939)
- Mike Myers (1963)
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803)
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
22,656 days ago
(62 years, 26 days)