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Thursday, December 26, 1974
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The Headlines
Ford Rating in Poll Slips to Low of 42%
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Angie Baby
Helen Reddy
#1 at the box office
The Godfather Part II
$1,872,700
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Charles Babbage (1791)
- Henry Miller (1891)
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194)
- Jared Leto (1971)
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
18,790 days ago
(51 years, 175 days)