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Thursday, May 25, 1972
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The Headlines
A Reporter's Notebook: Comparing the Journeys
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Oh Girl
The Chi-Lites
#1 at the box office
The Godfather †
$2,976,600
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
You Share a Birthday With
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803)
- Pieter Zeeman (1865)
- Ian McKellen (1939)
- Mike Myers (1963)
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803)
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
19,734 days ago
(54 years, 24 days)