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Welcome to Retroville! It’s 1978!
IN THE NEWS:
- Senate approves the Panama Cana Neutrality Treaty requiring the U.S. to turn over control of the Panama Canal to Panama by 2000
- Former Italian Premiere Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left wing terrorists who kill five of Moro’s bodyguards before leaving Moro dead
- President Carter hosts the Framework for Peace conference at Camp David with Egypt’s Sadat and Israel’s Begin that results in a treaty between the nations after the 13-day summit
- Jim Jones and his followers commit mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana
- Robert K. Jarvik patents the first artificial heart, the Jarvik-7
- The first test tube baby is born in England
- NY Yankees defeat the LA Dodgers to win the World Series
- Muhammad Ali defeats Leon Spinks to regain the heavyweight championship
- Affirmed wins the Triple Crown
- Actor Freddie Prinze commits suicide
- Pope Paul VI dies at 81
- Pope John Paul I is installed as Pope
- Pope John Paul I dies at 60
- Pope John Paul II is installed as Pope
ON THE RADIO:
- CBS Radio Mystery Theater
- Foundation Trilogy
- Frankenstein
- Harry Nile
- Turk Murphy Jazz Band
ON TELEVISION:
- Dallas
- CHIPs
- Battlestar Galactica
- Taxi
FADS & FASHION:
- Hungry Hungry Hippos
- Skateboards
- Mattel Electronic Soccer
- Easy Bake MiniWave ovens
- Battlestar Galactica action figures
WHAT THINGS COST:
- Car: $6,379
- Gasoline: 65 cents per gallon
- House: $62,500
- Bread: 34 cents per loaf
- Milk: $1.44 per gallon
- Postage Stamp: 15 cents
- Average Annual Salary: $20,091
- Minimum Wage: $2.65 per hour
ACADEMY AWARD – BEST PICTURE:
- The Deer Hunter – a dramatic film by Michael Cimino starring Robert DeNiro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep
TONY AWARD – BEST MUSICAL:
- Ain’t Misbehavin – music by Fats Waller, lyrics by multiple artists, choreographed by Arthur Faria, starring Nell Carter, Andre DeShields, Armelia McQueen, Ken Page, and Charlaine Woodard
PULITZER PRIZES:
- Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (fiction)
- The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn (drama)
- The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (history)
- Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate (biography)
- Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov (poetry)
- The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (non-fiction)
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE:
- Mohammad Anwar Al-Sadat, President of Egypt; and
- Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
TOP SONGS:
- Baby Come Back by Player
- Stayin Alive by The Bee Gees
- Hot Child in the City by Nick Gilder
