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Wednesday, August 31, 1966
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The Headlines
PRESIDENT SAYS U.S. CAN'T IGNORE CHINESE THREATS; Tells Legionnaires Vietnam Is Meant by Peking Only as an 'Opening Salvo' COMMITMENT IS DEFINED It Goes Beyond the Fighting to an Attack on Causes of War, He Declares PRESIDENT WARNS ON PEKING'S STAND
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Sunshine Superman
Donovan
#1 at the box office
How to Steal a Million
The must-have
Twister
You Share a Birthday With
- Tsai Ing-wen (1956)
- Maria Montessori (1870)
- Hassan Nasrallah (1960)
- Théophile Gautier (1811)
- Richard Gere (1949)
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
21,828 days ago
(59 years, 293 days)