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| Car: $4, 950 Eggs: $1.26/doz Min. Wage: $2.10/hr House: $42,600 Gas: $0.57/gal |
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| THE YEAR 1975 : Inventions: * LASER PRINTER *PUSH-THROUGH TAB on a drink can Events: *ABS-CBS & NBC agree to create a "family hour", an early evening time slot free of sex & violence. *April - Pol Pot & Khmer Rouge take over Cambodia * April 30 - Saigon is surrendered and remaining Americans evacuated, ending the Vietnam War. *May 15-American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued in operation by US Navy and Marines, 38 of whom are killed *July 15- Apollo and Soyouz spacecraft take off for US-Soviet link-up in space. |
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| WORLD STATISTICS: POPULATION: 4.086 billion US STATISTICS: President: Gerald Ford Vice President: Nelson Rockefeller Population: 215,973,199 Life Expectancy: 76 years Violent Crime Rate per 1000: 53 Property Crime Rate per 1000: 48 US GDP : (1998 dollars) $1,630.60 billion Federal Spending : $332.33 billion Federal Debt: $541.9 billion Median Current Household Income (current dollars) : $11,800 Consumer Price Index: 53.8 Unemployment : 8.5 % Cost of first-class stamp: $0.10 |
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| *Home VCRs are developed in Japan by SONY(Betamax) & Matsushita ( VHS) |
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| It was the year of the curly perm, lounge suits, overpowering perfumes, and shiny fabrics.
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| Lounge Lizards
The choice of Warren Beatty - a man with a lot to answer for.The lounge suit reached the height of its popularity with the release of Warren Beatty�s film, Shampoo. Every man wanted to be a Casanova lounge lizard. Resurrected after 200 years in the wilderness in a range of garish patterns and colours, the lounge suit promised elegance and comfort. But it soon became synonymous with sleaze. Eventually, the only people to be found wearing them were middle-aged men inhabiting Soho strip clubs. Certain restaurants and businesses even banned them for being too tacky. |
Smellies The nation held its breath as Old Spice, Charlie, and Brut tasted the sweet smell of success. It was the year Revlon launched Charlie in the UK and Henry Cooper larked about in the showers with Kevin Keegan and a bottle of Brut. A surfer and a classical soundtrack made Old Spice into a bestseller, while men tried a little too hard by splashing on gallons of Denim. Others discovered to their cost that they didn�t get mobbed by buxom women however much Hai Karate they used. |
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| Curly Perms
The fashion industry looked to snails for inspiration. Well what other explanation is there? Men flocked to get their hair frizzed after footballer Kevin Keegan popularised the cut, and women began to leave the �natural look� behind in favour of more outrageous waved styles. |
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