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Tuesday, October 24, 1972
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The Headlines
Scribner Agrees to Shift Black Pupils in Canarsie
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
My Ding-a-Ling
Chuck Berry
#1 at the box office
Slaughter
$525,000
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
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
19,582 days ago
(53 years, 237 days)