Wednesday, April 2, 1986

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The Headlines

DOW PLUNGES 28.50 IN HEAVY SELLING

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Rock Me Amadeus

Falco

#1 at the box office

$5,089,751

The must-have

Lazer Tag

On This Day

• Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Hans Christian Andersen (1805)
• Émile Zola (1840)
• AD 747 (747)
• 181 (181)
• Giacomo Casanova (1725)

Slang

Tech Check

Disposable Camera, Pixar & Mir Space Station.

Cost of Living (1985)