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Tuesday, August 8, 1972
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The Headlines
Addicts' Defender Charged as a Fake
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Alone Again (Naturally)
Gilbert O'Sullivan
#1 at the box office
The Godfather †
$895,500
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
You Share a Birthday With
- Paul Dirac (1902)
- Mohamed Morsi (1951)
- Dustin Hoffman (1937)
- Giuseppe Conte (1964)
- Emiliano Zapata (1879)
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
19,659 days ago
(53 years, 314 days)