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Saturday, October 21, 1967
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The Headlines
PROTEST TIES UP BROOKLYN CAMPUS; College Virtually Closed as 80% of Students Strike Over Action by Police Protest Ties Up Brooklyn College
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
To Sir With Love
Lulu
#1 at the box office
Reflections in a Golden Eye
The must-have
Battleship
On This Day
The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon.
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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
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)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
21,412 days ago
(58 years, 242 days)