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Monday, May 12, 1969
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The Headlines
SHIFT BY KIESINGER IS LINKED TO VOTE; Aides Report He Has Taken More Rightist Stance to Balk Nationalist Party Aides Report Kiesinger's Shift To Right Is Linked to Election
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
The 5th Dimension
#1 at the box office
The Mad Room
$283,500
The must-have
Nerf Ball
You Share a Birthday With
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Katharine Hepburn (1907)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
- George Carlin (1937)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
Tech Check
ARPANET (Internet Precursor), Moon Lander & UNIX.
Cost of Living (1960)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
20,843 days ago
(57 years, 38 days)