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Wednesday, December 11, 1968
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The Headlines
4 Rail Operating Unions Merge; Seek Tie to Bus and Air Groups; FOUR RAIL UNIONS APPROVE MERGER
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye
#1 at the box office
Funny Girl
The must-have
Hot Wheels
You Share a Birthday With
- Naguib Mahfouz (1911)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918)
- Hector Berlioz (1803)
- Robert Koch (1843)
- Max Born (1882)
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
20,995 days ago
(57 years, 190 days)