Friday, February 19, 1965

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The Headlines

300 Students Riot 2d Day, Attack Police in Brooklyn; STUDENTS RENEW RIOT IN BROOKLYN

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

This Diamond Ring

Gary Lewis & the Playboys

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Operation

On This Day

• Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm, all Catholics, attempt a coup against the military junta of the Buddhist Nguyễn Khánh.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473)
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953)
• Svante Arrhenius (1859)
• Saparmurat Niyazov (1940)
• André Breton (1896)

Slang

Tech Check

Supercomputer (CDC 6600), Hypertext & Kevlar.

Cost of Living (1960)