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Thursday, February 10, 1972
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The Headlines
Pay Unit Widens Scrutiny Of Deferred Wage Rises
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Let's Stay Together
Al Green
#1 at the box office
The French Connection
$711,400
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
On This Day
Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Bertolt Brecht (1898)
- Boris Pasternak (1890)
- Harold Macmillan (1894)
- Lee Hsien Loong (1952)
- Walter Brattain (1902)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
Video Games (Pong), C Programming Language & HBO (Cable TV).
Cost of Living (1970)
Loaf of Bread
$0.25
Gallon of Gas
$0.36
Average Home
$17,000
New Car
$3,450
Time Elapsed
19,839 days ago
(54 years, 129 days)