My mom’s friends made up a scrapbook of newspaper and magazine clippings from the week of March 2nd, 1970. (It was a Monday, so they had all week!) Bless their kind hearts.
Let’s see. First of all, the Newark Daily Record cost a dime. Some skaters fell through the ice in Lake Hopatcong, were rescued and recovered. 
A woman in Morristown was stabbed and bludgeoned to death in her home by an unknown assailant. 
A couple in New York by the name of Kienast had had quintuplets the previous week. Mia Farrow also gave birth to twins (Andre Previn was the dad). 
There was a solar eclipse on March 7. A fifteen-year-old girl stared at it for four minutes and was almost totally blinded. :smack:
At Two Guys (supermarket), .99 would have purchased four cans of cling peaches, or four boxes of tissues, or three jars of spaghetti sauce, or a 5-pound 4-oz jug of detergent, or 5 cans of frozen orange juice, or six 1-pound packages of margarine. A pound of coffee was 59 cents, and eight ounces of cream cheese was a quarter. :eek: Sales tax in New Jersey went up to 5%. 
Ann Landers fielded questions from a man whose wife complained that he didn’t say “I love you” often enough, a grandma who couldn’t find an attractive boy doll for her granddaughter, and a woman who was fed up with people arriving early for parties. :dubious:
Laugh-In, Here’s Lucy, Mayberry RFD and the Carol Burnett Show were on TV that night. Local movies included Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, Stolen Kisses, The Italian Job, Hell’s Angels on Wheels , Three Into Two Won’t Go, All the Loving Couples, and The Arrangement 
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Midi-skirts and maxi-coats were the new fashions. :dubious: Prince Charles, age 21, appeared in a Cambridge University revue. 
Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki returned from their honeymoon. :rolleyes: Hubert Humphrey was booed off the stage when he tried to lecture at the University of Massachusetts. :wally
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