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Wednesday, July 8, 1964
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The Headlines
High‐Ranking Communist Here Ousted by Party as ‘Police Agent’
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
The Carpetbaggers †
The must-have
G.I. Joe
You Share a Birthday With
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621)
- John D. Rockefeller (1839)
- Pyotr Kapitsa (1894)
- Igor Tamm (1895)
- Nelson Rockefeller (1908)
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
22,612 days ago
(61 years, 347 days)