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Wednesday, January 31, 1968
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The Headlines
STATE UNIVERSITY SETS DRUG CURBS; Gould Issues New Controls in Reaction to Raid on Stony Brook Campus STATE UNIVERSITY SETS DRUG CURBS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Green Tambourine
The Lemon Pipers
#1 at the box office
Valley of the Dolls
The must-have
Hot Wheels
On This Day
Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Franz Schubert (1797)
- Kenzaburō Ōe (1935)
- Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938)
- Norman Mailer (1923)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
Tech Check
Computer Mouse (Demo), Boeing 747 & 911 Emergency System.
Cost of Living (1960)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
21,310 days ago
(58 years, 140 days)