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Thursday, August 26, 1971
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The Headlines
U.A.w., IN A SHIFT, PLEDGES TO ADAPT TO WAGE CONTROL
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Bee Gees
#1 at the box office
The Omega Man
$500,000
The must-have
Uno
You Share a Birthday With
- Mother Teresa (1910)
- Antoine Lavoisier (1743)
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880)
- Julio Cortázar (1914)
- Robert Walpole (1676)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
Microprocessor (Intel 4004), Email & Soft Contact Lenses.
Cost of Living (1970)
Loaf of Bread
$0.25
Gallon of Gas
$0.36
Average Home
$17,000
New Car
$3,450
Time Elapsed
20,007 days ago
(54 years, 297 days)