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Thursday, April 22, 1965
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The Headlines
158,000 Open the Fair's Second Year; Paid Admissions Are 3 Times More Than First Day's in '64 158,000, Half of Them Children, Attend World's Fair on Crisp, Sunny Opening Day HUMPHREY SPEAKS AT SINGER BOWL Shares Dais With Wagner, Brandt and Warren -- Crowd Is Exuberant
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Game of Love
Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders
#1 at the box office
The Sound of Music
The must-have
Operation
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
Tech Check
Supercomputer (CDC 6600), Hypertext & Kevlar.
Cost of Living (1960)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
22,325 days ago
(61 years, 60 days)