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Thursday, March 29, 1973
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The Headlines
C.I.A. Aide Says He Gave Anti‐Allende Plan to I.T.T.
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Killing Me Softly with His Song
Roberta Flack
#1 at the box office
Cabaret
$983,950
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
On This Day
Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
Wikipedia →Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- John Tyler (1790)
- John Major (1943)
- Lavrentiy Beria (1899)
- Vangelis (1943)
- Ernst Jünger (1895)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
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
19,426 days ago
(53 years, 81 days)