The United States from 1970-1979

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The United States from 1970-1979

• Social Studies Class
• Bayleigh
• April 3, 2008

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Whos 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.
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Video
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Money

• Britain adopts decimal currency
• 180,000 Americans are millionaires
• 7.5 million millionaires in 2004

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Entertainment

• 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.
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Fashion and Beauty

• 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.
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Music

• The Rolling Stones
• Arguably 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.
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Science

• Sound waves used to break up kidney stones
• First black hole discovered

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New Slang Words

• Rock the boat
• Ring my bell

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Art

• 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.
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Bad 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.
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Who Died

• Elvis Presley
• Elvis 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.