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Tuesday, November 21, 1978
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The Headlines
Canada's Retailers: Merger Skirmish
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
MacArthur Park
Donna Summer
#1 at the box office
Magic
$1,177,317
The must-have
Simon (Memory Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Voltaire (1694)
- Pope Benedict XV (1854)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903)
- Björk (1965)
- René Magritte (1898)
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
17,363 days ago
(47 years, 208 days)