Saturday, December 2, 1972

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The Headlines

U.S. Reports ‘Major Advance’ In Controlling Nuclear Fusion

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Papa Was a Rollin' Stone

The Temptations

#1 at the box office

$581,600

The must-have

Pong (Atari)

On This Day

• Gough Whitlam is elected the 21st Prime Minister of Australia in the 1972 Australian federal election, defeating William McMahon and leading the Australian Labor Party back into office after 23 years in Opposition.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Maria Callas (1923)
• Lucy Liu (1968)
• Georges Seurat (1859)
• Pedro II of Brazil (1825)
• Otto Dix (1891)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1970)