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Tuesday, August 23, 1966
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The Headlines
'65 Uprising in Indonesia: Study in Red Blundering; Following is the second of a series of four dispatches on Indonesia by The New York Times's chief correspondent in Southeast Asia, who recently traveled through the country. The 1965 Uprising in Indonesia: A Communist Debacle Laid to Blundering
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Summer in the City
The Lovin' Spoonful
#1 at the box office
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The must-have
Twister
On This Day
Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Louis XVI (1754)
- Edgar de Wahl (1867)
- Georges Cuvier (1769)
- Gene Kelly (1912)
- Halimah Yacob (1954)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
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
21,836 days ago
(59 years, 301 days)