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Saturday, August 22, 1964
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The Headlines
MANSFIELD SAYS U.S. SHOULD AVOID LONE CONGO ROLE; Senate Majority Chief Ties Major Responsibility to Africans Themselves; HE ASKS BELGIAN HELP; Declares Americans Must Resist the Urge to Solve All World's Problems
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
- Deng Xiaoping (1904)
- Claude Debussy (1862)
- Ray Bradbury (1920)
- Leni Riefenstahl (1902)
- Pope Leo XII (1760)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Hippie
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Surfer
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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
22,567 days ago
(61 years, 302 days)