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Welcome to Retroville! It’s 1972!
IN THE NEWS:
- President Nixon makes an eight-day visit to Communist China and meets with Chairman Mao Zedong
- Britain takes over direct rule of Northern Ireland
- Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur H. Bremer at Laurel Mall in Laurel, Maryland, at a political rally
- Five men are arrested by police when they attempt to bug the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in Washington D.C. at the Watergate touching off the Watergate scandal
- Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional and all current inmates on death rows throughout the United States have their death sentence commuted to life sentences
- Eleven Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich are killed when eight members of an Arab terrorist group invade the Olympic Village
- FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover dies in his sleep at 77
- The first word processor is introduced
- Godfrey Hounsfield develops the CAT scan
- Oakland As defeat Cincinnati Reds to win the World Series
ON THE RADIO:
- Amazing Interplanetary Adventure
- Author’s Playhouse
- CBS Radio Mystery Theater
- Casebook of Gregory Hood
- Murder at Midnight
- Phillip Marlowe
- Saint
ON TELEVISION:
- Kung Fu
- The Streets of San Francisco
- The Sixth Sense
- Emergency!
- The Electric Company
- MASH
- Sandy Duncan Show
- The French Chef
- Masterpiece Theater
- Firing Line
- The Rookies
- Maude
- The Waltons
- Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
- Sanford and Son
- Ghost Story
- Banyon
- Wall Street Week
FADS & FASHION:
- Pong (computer television game)
- Seance (the game)
- Evel Knevel figures
- Action Jackson figures
- Afro haircuts
- Hot pants
WHAT THINGS COST:
- Car: $3,879
- Gasoline: 36 cents per gallon
- House: $30,500
- Bread: 25 cents per loaf
- Milk: $1.33 per gallon
- Postage Stamp: 8 cents
- Average Annual Salary: $12,625
- Minimum Wage: $1.60 per hour
ACADEMY AWARD – BEST PICTURE:
- The Godfather – a crime epic by Albert S. Ruddy starring Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, and James Caan
TONY AWARD – BEST MUSICAL:
- Two Gentlemen of Verona – directed by Mel Shapiro and starring Raul Julia
PULITZER PRIZES:
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (fiction)
- Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler (history)
- Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash (biography)
- Collected Poems by James Wright (poetry)
- Stilwell and the American Experience in China by Barbara W. Tuchm (non-fiction)
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE:
- none awarded
TOP SONGS:
- A Horse With No Name by America
- Me and Mrs Jones by Billy Paul
- I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash
