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The United States from The United States from 1970-19791970-1979
Social Studies Class Social Studies Class BayleighBayleigh
April 3, 2008 April 3, 2008
Who’s InWho’s In• President Richard M.
Nixon
• Chris Evert
Richard Milhous Nixon served as the thirty-seventh president of the United States from 1969 to August of 1974.
Chris Evert was such a good tennis player, and such a consistent winner, that her style was sometimes described as boring.
MoneyMoney
• Britain adopts decimal currency
• 180,000 Americans are millionaires
• 7.5 million millionaires in 2004
EntertainmentEntertainment
• “Grease”• Grease is a musical
by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.
• “The Fifth of July”
Fifth of July is a 1979 play by American playwright Lanford Wilson.
FashionFashion and and BeautyBeauty
• Punk styles
• If you're looking to expand your wardrobe, but aren't exactly sure where to find the latest punk fashions, you'll be happy to know you're literally only a few mouse clicks away!
• Jogging Outfits
Gone are the days when you had to depend only on an old tracksuit for your jogging session.
MusicMusic
• The Rolling StonesArguably the most successful band in the history of rock music, the Rolling Stones
enjoyed unmatched fame-and infamy-for the better half of the 20th century. • Pink Floyd
Rock band Pink Floyd holds one of the most impressive records in the music industry--its 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon has been on Billboard magazine's top two hundred chart longer than any other.
ArtArt
• Mark Rothko “Black and White’’
• Gray ” Mark Rothko, one of America's best known twentieth-century painters and a pioneer of the Abstract Expressionist school, was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia, on 25 February 1903
• Robert Rauschenberg “Venetian Series”
Rauschenberg is with Jasper Johns the most influential of the artists who reacted against the high seriousness, solemn introspection, and spirituality of Abstract Expressionism and the critical reverence accorded to it; in the process he raised some fundamental questions about art and its relation to life.
Bad GuysBad Guys
• Gary Gilmore
Gary Gilmore was executed by a volunteer firing squad in Utah on 7 January 1977, three months after being sentenced to death for killing two young Mormon men.
Who DiedWho Died
• Elvis PresleyElvis Aaron Presley, the "King of Rock and Roll," was one of the most influential figures in the
early rock & roll scene.
• Mama Cass Elliott
Cass Elliot (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), born Ellen Naomi Cohen, was a noted American singer, best remembered as Mama Cass of the pop quartet The Mamas & the Papas.