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Monday, December 23, 1968
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The Headlines
FUEL STRIKE ENDS; PRIORITIES STAND; City Bids Oil Drivers Give the Sick First Deliveries -Thousands Without Heat Oil Drivers End Strike, but Priority Delivery Stands
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
Candy
The must-have
Hot Wheels
On This Day
The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Akihito (1933)
- Helmut Schmidt (1918)
- Alexander I of Russia (1777)
- Joseph Smith (1805)
- Jean-François Champollion (1790)
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
20,984 days ago
(57 years, 179 days)