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Monday, May 27, 1974
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The Headlines
Navy and Air Force Upgrade Weaponry
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Streak
Ray Stevens
#1 at the box office
The Great Gatsby
$1,044,438
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Ibn Khaldun (1332)
- Henry Kissinger (1923)
- Christopher Lee (1922)
- Rachel Carson (1907)
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894)
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
19,003 days ago
(52 years, 23 days)