Thursday, December 18, 1969

From the day

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The Headlines

PRESIDENT URGES CONGRESS TO HALT RISE IN SPENDING; Scores Expenditure Increase at a Time When Revenues Are Being Reduced HE WARNS OF INFLATION Nixon, in Letter to Leaders, Asserts the Government's 'Credibility' Is at Stake President Bids Congress Halt Spending Rise and Tax Cutting

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Peter, Paul and Mary

#1 at the box office

$1,223,000

The must-have

Nerf Ball

You Share a Birthday With

• Joseph Stalin (1878)
• Steven Spielberg (1946)
• Brad Pitt (1963)
• Willy Brandt (1913)
• J. J. Thomson (1856)

Slang

Tech Check

ARPANET (Internet Precursor), Moon Lander & UNIX.

Cost of Living (1960)