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Thursday, October 11, 1979
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The Headlines
Fort Dix Gets a Reprieve For a Year to 18 Months
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Michael Jackson
#1 at the box office
When a Stranger Calls
$1,593,114
The must-have
Sony Walkman
You Share a Birthday With
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884)
- Amitabh Bachchan (1942)
- François Mauriac (1885)
- Bobby Charlton (1937)
- Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
Sony Walkman, Spreadsheet (VisiCalc) & Cellular Network (1G).
Cost of Living (1975)
Loaf of Bread
$0.36
Gallon of Gas
$0.57
Average Home
$39,300
New Car
$4,950
Time Elapsed
17,039 days ago
(46 years, 249 days)