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Thursday, December 12, 1968
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The Headlines
UDALL ENDS FIGHT ON HUDSON ROUTE; Withdraws His Objections to East Bank Expressway UDALL ENDS FIGHT ON HUDSON ROUTE
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
- Gustave Flaubert (1821)
- Frank Sinatra (1915)
- Edvard Munch (1863)
- Alfred Werner (1866)
- Rajinikanth (1950)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Hippie
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Surfer
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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)