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Friday, January 12, 1973

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The Headlines

MANDATORY WAGE‐PRICE CONTROLS ENDED EXCEPT IN FOOD, HEALTH, BUILDING FIELDS; NIXON CALLS FOR VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE

Read in The New York Times →

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

You're So Vain

Carly Simon

#1 at the box office

The Poseidon Adventure †

$634,500

The must-have

Shrinky Dinks

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

discostreakyuppie

Trucker Cb

10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey

Funk Soul

can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey

Catchphrases of 1973

  • I am not a crook

Tech Check

Cell Phone (Call), Ethernet & MRI Scanner.

Cost of Living (1970)

Loaf of Bread

$0.25

Gallon of Gas

$0.36

Average Home

$17,000

New Car

$3,450

Time Elapsed

19,502 days ago

(53 years, 157 days)