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Saturday, February 12, 1972
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The Headlines
U.S. AND THE SOVIET TO POOL RESEARCH IN 3 HEALTH AREAS
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)
You Share a Birthday With
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (1768)
- Anna Pavlova (1881)
- Julian Schwinger (1918)
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
19,837 days ago
(54 years, 127 days)