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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.

    Wikipedia →

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bummerfoxhunkscam

Hippie

flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on

Surfer

cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly

Catchphrases of 1968

  • Sock it to me!

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)