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Sunday, April 14, 1974
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The Headlines
ABPLANALP SCORES SENATE UNIT AIDES
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)
MFSB and The Three Degrees
#1 at the box office
Blazing Saddles
$1,233,700
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- B. R. Ambedkar (1891)
- Averroes (1126)
- Christiaan Huygens (1629)
- Arnold J. Toynbee (1889)
- Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1906)
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
19,046 days ago
(52 years, 66 days)