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Saturday, October 4, 1969
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The Headlines
LAIRD PANEL ASKS CONTINUED R.O.T.C.; CALLS FOR REFORM; Asserts Campus Training Helps to Keep Civilian Control Over Military AID TO COLLEGES URGED Faculty Overseers, Pay Rise for Cadets and Increase in Scholarships Sought Laird Panel Urges Continued R.O.T.C.
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Sugar, Sugar
The Archies
#1 at the box office
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
$500,608
The must-have
Nerf Ball
You Share a Birthday With
- Rutherford B. Hayes (1822)
- Susan Sarandon (1946)
- Buster Keaton (1895)
- Charlton Heston (1923)
- Vitaly Ginzburg (1916)
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
20,698 days ago
(56 years, 258 days)