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Wednesday, February 27, 1974
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The Headlines
Dissident Ethiopia Troops Seize Asmara
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Seasons in the Sun
Terry Jacks
#1 at the box office
The Exorcist †
$1,312,000
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Constantine the Great (272)
- John Steinbeck (1902)
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807)
- Joanne Woodward (1930)
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
19,091 days ago
(52 years, 111 days)