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Tuesday, August 8, 1978
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The Headlines
Patricia Harris Balks at Testifying
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Three Times a Lady
Commodores
#1 at the box office
Hooper
$2,476,400
The must-have
Simon (Memory Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Paul Dirac (1902)
- Mohamed Morsi (1951)
- Dustin Hoffman (1937)
- Giuseppe Conte (1964)
- Emiliano Zapata (1879)
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
17,468 days ago
(47 years, 313 days)