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Friday, September 26, 1969
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The Headlines
COURT REINSTATES BLUE CROSS RISE; DELAY IS SOUGHT; Health Plan Head Declares Rate Increases Will Go Into Effect 'at Once' 3.7 MILLION AFFECTED Hearing Asked on Request for Stay of 4-1 Ruling by Appellate Division COURT REINSTATES BLUE CROSS RISE
Read in The New York Times →World Mood
#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Sugar, Sugar
The Archies
#1 at the box office
Bonnie and Clyde/Bullitt (double-bill)
$546,163
The must-have
Nerf Ball
You Share a Birthday With
- T. S. Eliot (1888)
- Martin Heidegger (1889)
- Pope Paul VI (1897)
- Petro Poroshenko (1965)
- Ivan Pavlov (1849)
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
20,706 days ago
(56 years, 266 days)