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Friday, October 21, 1966
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The Headlines
CONGRESS PASSES POVERTY PROGRAM WITH NEW CURBS; 170-109 House Vote Backs Bill With Limits on Costs, Salaries and Personnel EMPHASIS PUT ON JOBS Slash in Funds Expected Model Cities and School Aid Measures Cleared Congress Approves Poverty Program
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Reach Out I'll Be There
Four Tops
#1 at the box office
Doctor Zhivago
The must-have
Twister
On This Day
A colliery spoil tip slips onto houses and a school in the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, 116 of whom were schoolchildren.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Alfred Nobel (1833)
- Benjamin Netanyahu (1949)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
- Carrie Fisher (1956)
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929)
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
21,777 days ago
(59 years, 242 days)