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Tuesday, July 18, 1978
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The Headlines
Many Black Policemen Feel They're Between Two Guns…
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Shadow Dancing
Andy Gibb
#1 at the box office
Grease †
$2,129,200
The must-have
Simon (Memory Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Nelson Mandela (1918)
- Hendrik Lorentz (1853)
- Vin Diesel (1967)
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811)
- John Glenn (1921)
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
17,489 days ago
(47 years, 334 days)