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Wednesday, January 9, 1974
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The Headlines
An Outspoken Goldwater Shows New Political Life
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Joker
Steve Miller Band
#1 at the box office
The Exorcist †
$1,007,800
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Richard Nixon (1913)
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908)
- AD 727 (727)
- Karel Čapek (1890)
- Joan Baez (1941)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
UPC Barcode, Rubik's Cube & Post-it Notes.
Cost of Living (1970)
Loaf of Bread
$0.25
Gallon of Gas
$0.36
Average Home
$17,000
New Car
$3,450
Meanwhile
- Oil Crisis Recession — OPEC embargo quadrupled oil prices; stagflation begins.
Time Elapsed
19,140 days ago
(52 years, 160 days)