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Thursday, September 26, 1974
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The Headlines
NO WAR OVER OIL, SCHLESINGER SAYS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Rock Me Gently
Andy Kim
#1 at the box office
The Longest Yard
$513,630
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- T. S. Eliot (1888)
- Martin Heidegger (1889)
- Pope Paul VI (1897)
- Petro Poroshenko (1965)
- Ivan Pavlov (1849)
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
18,881 days ago
(51 years, 266 days)