Tuesday, February 22, 1972

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The Headlines

GINLEY'S THE NAME

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Without You

Nilsson

#1 at the box office

$601,500

The must-have

Pong (Atari)

On This Day

• The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.

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You Share a Birthday With

• George Washington (1732)
• Arthur Schopenhauer (1788)
• Heinrich Hertz (1857)
• Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857)
• Horst Köhler (1943)

Slang

Tech Check

Video Games (Pong), C Programming Language & HBO (Cable TV).

Cost of Living (1970)