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Saturday, December 11, 1965
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The Headlines
Shastri Will Confer With Johnson Feb. 1; Shastri Will Confer With Johnson in U.S. Feb. 1
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
The Byrds
#1 at the box office
The Sound of Music
The must-have
Operation
You Share a Birthday With
- Naguib Mahfouz (1911)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918)
- Hector Berlioz (1803)
- Robert Koch (1843)
- Max Born (1882)
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
22,091 days ago
(60 years, 191 days)