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Tuesday, October 15, 1974
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The Headlines
HOCKELLER '72 AID MAY FACE INQUIRY
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Nothing From Nothing
Billy Preston
#1 at the box office
Cabaret (reissue)
$687,000
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844)
- Akbar (1542)
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814)
- Michel Foucault (1926)
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931)
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
18,861 days ago
(51 years, 246 days)