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Thursday, September 17, 1964
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The Headlines
HUNDREDS PLAN TO PRESS BOYCOTT OF CITY SCHOOLS; But Thousands Will Attend as 2 Anti‐Pairing Groups Divide on Strategy; PRIVATE CLASSES OPEN; Foes of Busing Program to Appear Before Council on Neighborhood Concept
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
- Narendra Modi (1950)
- Bernhard Riemann (1826)
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857)
- Pope Paul V (1550)
- Anne Bancroft (1931)
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
22,542 days ago
(61 years, 277 days)