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Friday, May 12, 1978
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The Headlines
SENATE PANEL IN TIE ON VOTE TO THWART MIDEAST JET SALES
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
If I Can't Have You
Yvonne Elliman
#1 at the box office
The Greek Tycoon
$677,300
The must-have
Simon (Memory Game)
On This Day
In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Katharine Hepburn (1907)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
- George Carlin (1937)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
GPS Satellites, LaserDisc & Space Invaders.
Cost of Living (1975)
Loaf of Bread
$0.36
Gallon of Gas
$0.57
Average Home
$39,300
New Car
$4,950
Time Elapsed
17,556 days ago
(48 years, 36 days)