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Monday, March 21, 1966

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The Headlines

INTEGRATION DATA ON UNIONS SOUGHT; Booth Gives Building Trades a Week to Make Reports or Face Public Hearing INTEGRATION DATA ON UNIONS SOUGHT

Read in The New York Times →

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

The Ballad of the Green Berets

SSgt Barry Sadler

The must-have

Twister

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bummerfoxhunkscam

Hippie

flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on

Surfer

cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly

Catchphrases of 1966

  • Beam me up, Scotty

Tech Check

Fiber Optics, Handheld Calculator Concept & Fuel Injection.

Cost of Living (1960)

Loaf of Bread

$0.20

Gallon of Gas

$0.31

Average Home

$11,900

New Car

$2,600

Time Elapsed

21,991 days ago

(60 years, 91 days)