Friday, January 27, 1967

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The Headlines

M'NAMARA SEES CHINA ICBM GAINS; Secretary Says Evidence Points Toward Missile or Space Launching in '67 McNamara Sees Chinese Missile Gain

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

I'm a Believer

The Monkees

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Battleship

On This Day

• Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting the usage of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.

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• Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756)
• Lewis Carroll (1832)
• Wilhelm II (1859)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775)
• Abbas the Great (1571)

Slang

Tech Check

ATM (Cash Machine), Heart Transplant Tech & Dolby Noise Reduction.

Style of 1967

Silhouette: Flowing and bohemian (Hippie)

Material: Tie-dye and hemp

• Bell bottoms
• Fringe vests
• Flower crowns

Cost of Living (1960)