time capsule / aug. 11, 1969

AT THE MOVIES, Paul Newman (right) and wife Joanne Woodward speed across screens in the race-car flick Winning. It's the sixth time the couple costar together. ON TV, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In is a silly top show. IN MUSIC, Zager & Evans' ''In the Year 2525'' is the trippy No. 1 pop single. IN BOOKSTORES, Jacqueline Susann's The Love Machine heats up fiction lovers. AND IN THE NEWS, police hunt for the killers of Sharon Tate and four others after discovering a gruesome crime scene two days earlier. The assailants will later be known as the Manson Family.


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