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Friday, April 26, 1968
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The Headlines
COLUMBIA HALTING WORK ON ITS GYM; SUSPENDS CLASSES; But Students Remain in Five Seized Buildings -- School Closed Until Monday DEMONSTRATIONS GO ON Kirk Refuses Amnesty for Protesters -- Policemen Scuffle With Faculty Columbia Agrees to Suspend Work on Gymnasium That Stirred Student Protest CLASSES CALLED OFF UNTIL MONDAY But Students Remain in 5 Buildings They Seized in 4-Day Uprising
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Honey
Bobby Goldsboro
#1 at the box office
The Graduate †
The must-have
Hot Wheels
You Share a Birthday With
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889)
- AD 121 (121)
- AD 757 (757)
- Eugène Delacroix (1798)
- Jet Li (1963)
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
21,224 days ago
(58 years, 54 days)