DATE: Tuesday, April 22, 1997               TAG: 9704220124

SECTION: DAILY BREAK             PAGE: E1   EDITION: FINAL  

SOURCE: BY ELLIS E. CONKLIN, SEATLLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

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CORRECTION/CLARIFICATION: ***************************************************************** The first name of former presidential candidate George McGovern was wrong in a Daily Break story Tuesday about the '70s. Correction published , Wednesday, April 23, 1997, p. A2 ***************************************************************** BELL-BOTTOM BLUES

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THE '70S - A LOOK BACK

1970

U.S. Invades Cambodia

First Earth Day

Ohio National Guard guns down four Kent State University students

Simon and Garfunkel release ``Bridge Over Troubled Waters''

Environmental Protection Agency created

Janis Joplin dies of heroin overdose

Mood rings the rave

1971

Police kill 28 inmates and nine hostages at Attica Correctional

Center

Ms. magazine founded by Gloria Steinem

Saddam Hussein becomes ruler of Iraq

Skyjacker D.B. Cooper leaps to fame

Happy Face button rears its mug

Carole King releases hugely popular ``Tapestry'' album

Rock impresario Bill Graham closes Fillmores East and West

1972

President Nixon goes to China

Jane Fonda goes to North Vietnam

Watergate break-in

George Wallace shot

Stevie Wonder's ``You Are the Sunshine of My Life'' is major hit

26-year-old Bill Clinton manages William McGovern presidential

campaign in Texas

McGovern loses 49 states to Nixon

1973

O.J. Simpson becomes first pro football player to rush for more than

2,000 yards in a season

Spiro Agnew resigns

American Indian Movement activists occupy Wounded Knee massacre site

U.S. Supreme Court hands down landmark Roe vs. Wade abortion

decision

Streaking'' becomes a fad

1974

Nixon resigns

Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's home run record with 715th tatter

Evel Knievel fails to cross Snake River canyon on motorcycle rocket

Patty Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army

Little League Baseball Inc. votes to allow girls to play on its

teams

1975

South Vietnam falls as United States pulls out

Two assassination attempts on President Ford

Pet Rock ``invented''

Bob Dylan releases ``Blood on the Tracks'' album

Carlton Fisk hits homer in 12th as Red Sox beat Cincinnati Reds in

World Series' classic sixth game

First VCR introduced

1976

Jimmy Carter elected

Nation celebrates Bicentennial

Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy star on ``The Muppet Show''

Legionnaire's disease discovered

1977

Carter pardons Vietnam draft resisters

Elvis Presley dies

John Travolta and ``Saturday Night Fever'' usher in disco

World's worst air disaster - 583 die when two 747s collide on runway

in Canary Islands

Hillside Strangler terrorizes Los Angeles

Final segment of ``Roots'' draws record TV rating

1978

Cult leader Jim Jones commits suicide with 917 followers at

Jonestown, Guyana

U.S. Supreme Court's Bakke decision paves way for affirmative action

750 Love Canal families evacuated in New York because of health

problems linked to chemical waste

Camp David accord led by Carter

San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Councilman Harvey Milk killed

by disgruntled ex-Councilman Dan White

1979

Iran holds 52 Americans hostage

Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island

Soviet Union invades Afghanistan

Gasoline shortage crisis

Top song as decade ends: Rupert Holmes' ``Escape'' (also called

``The Pina Colada Song'')

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

POPULAR CULTURE: BEST OF '70s

Oscar's top movie, by year: ``Patton,'' ``The French Connection,''

``The Godfather,'' ``The Sting,'' ``The Godfather, Part II,'' ``One

Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,'' ``Rocky,'' ``Annie Hall,'' ``The Deer

Hunter,'' ``Kramer vs. Kramer''

Top-rated TV show, by year: ``Marcus Welby, M.D.,'' ``All in the

Family'' (five straight), ``Happy Days,'' ``Laverne & Shirley'' (two

straight), ``60 Minutes''

Top song, by year: ``Bridge Over Troubled Water,'' ``Joy to the

World,'' ``The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,'' ``Killing Me

Softly With His Song,'' ``The Way We Were,'' ``Love Will Keep Us

Together,'' ``Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright),'' ``You Light

Up My Life,'' ``Night Fever,'' ``My Sharona''

Top best seller, by year: Fiction: ``Love Story,'' ``The Passions of

the Mind,'' ``Jonathan Livingston Seagull,'' ``Burr,''

``Centennial,'' ``Curtain,'' ``Trinity,'' ``The Silmarillion,''

``Chesapeake,'' ``Sophie's Choice''

Non-fiction: ``Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (but

Were Afraid to Ask),'' ``Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,'' ``I'm OK,

You're OK,'' ``Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution,'' ``All the President's

Men,'' ``Breach of Faith,'' ``Roots,'' ``All Things Wise and

Wonderful,'' ``If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the

Pits?'' ``The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet''

Seattle Post-Intelligencer KEYWORDS: 1970S NOSTALGI

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