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Sunday, August 11, 1968
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The Headlines
ROWING TITLE WON BY HOUGH-JOHNSON; Potomac Club Oarsmen Take Pairs With Coxswain Race at Orchard Beach ROWING TITLE WON BY HOUGH-JOHNSON
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
People Got to Be Free
The Rascals
#1 at the box office
Rosemary's Baby
The must-have
Hot Wheels
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
21,117 days ago
(57 years, 312 days)