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Saturday, December 21, 1974
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The Headlines
COUNT MERCATI, 73, OF ATHENS BREWERY
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Cat's in the Cradle
Harry Chapin
#1 at the box office
The Godfather Part II
$1,450,135
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804)
- Mikheil Saakashvili (1967)
- Hu Jintao (1942)
- Heinrich Böll (1917)
- Jane Fonda (1937)
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
18,794 days ago
(51 years, 179 days)