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San Francisco restaurant celebrates its anniversary by turning back the prices You may get tired of hearing you grandfather tell you how cheap things were in the 1950s but Tuesday is your chance to walk in his shoes without getting annoyed. Villa Romana in San Francisco's Sunset district will celebrate its 55th anniversary Tuesday by turning back its menu to 1955 prices. The authentic Napolo restaurant was opened when a 16-year-old Antonio Accardo got off the boat from Italy and somehow convinced the Bank of America to give him a loan to open the restaurant. Try doing that in today's...

Nutty News History: Comments Made in the Year 1955! That's only 53 years ago! - 'I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20.00.' - 'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2,000.00 will only buy a used one.' - 'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous.' - 'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?' -...

Makes you wonder about 50 years from now. Comments made in the year 1955! That's only 53 years ago! "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to beimpossible to buy a week's groceries for $20.00." "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2, 000.00 will only buy a used one." "If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack isridiculous. "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?" "If...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The reopened investigation into a brutal 1955 killing of a black teenager is focusing on the white woman the 14-year-old allegedly whistled at and a black man who worked for one of the two acquitted suspects, according to an upcoming CBS "60 Minutes" report. In a news release Thursday promoting Sunday's broadcast, CBS said investigators are focusing on Carolyn Donham, the ex-wife of one of the men acquitted by an all-white jury of murdering Emmett Till. Till was kidnapped from his uncle's home in Money, a tiny Mississippi Delta community, on Aug. 28, 1955, allegedly for...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This appeared in the first issue of National Review, on November 19, 1955. There is, we like to think, solid reason for rejoicing. Prodigious efforts, by many people, are responsible for NATIONAL REVIEW. But since it will be the policy of this magazine to reject the hypodermic approach to world affairs, we may as well start out at once, and admit that the joy is not unconfined. Let's face it: Unlike Vienna, it seems altogether possible that did NATIONAL REVIEW not exist, no one would have invented it. The launching of a conservative weekly journal of opinion in...