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Thursday, June 6, 1974
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The Headlines
House Insists, 270 to 103, On Firm Antibusing Stand
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Band on the Run
Paul McCartney & Wings
#1 at the box office
The Poseidon Adventure (reissue)
$575,500
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Alexander Pushkin (1799)
- Diego Velázquez (1599)
- Thomas Mann (1875)
- Sukarno (1901)
- Pierre Corneille (1606)
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
18,992 days ago
(52 years, 12 days)