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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

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Honey

Bobby Goldsboro

The must-have

Hot Wheels

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bummerfoxhunkscam

Hippie

flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on

Surfer

cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly

Catchphrases of 1968

  • Sock it to me!

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)