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On the date
Wednesday, May 1, 1968
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The Headlines
PICKETS CIRCLE COLUMBIA; CLASS REOPENING DELAYED; 720 PROTESTERS ARRAIGNED; FACULTY IS SPLIT Some Endorse Strike Called by Students After Police Raid Hundreds of Picketing Students Circle Columbia as Class Reopening Is Delayed FACULTY IS SPLIT ON STRIKE ISSUE 720 Protesters Are Arraigned Following Raid in Which 148 Suffered Injuries
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
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
- Joseph Addison (1672)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
- Joseph Heller (1923)
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
21,219 days ago
(58 years, 49 days)