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Saturday, August 15, 1964
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The Headlines
Greeks Expected to Offer Turks a Cyprus Foothold; Position Reported by Envoys in Ankara as Geneva Negotiations Resume—Acheson's Plan Still Favored
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
The must-have
G.I. Joe
You Share a Birthday With
- Napoleon (1769)
- Walter Scott (1771)
- Louis de Broglie (1892)
- Sri Aurobindo (1872)
- Gerty Cori (1896)
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
22,574 days ago
(61 years, 309 days)