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Monday, September 29, 1969
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The Headlines
DUBCEK IS OUSTED FROM PRESIDIUM IN A CZECH PURGE; Ex-Party Chief Also Loses Assembly Posts but Stays in Central Committee Dubcek Is Ousted From Czechoslovak Party Presidium in a Broad Purge
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
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
20,703 days ago
(56 years, 263 days)