THE 1970s: LIFESTYLES AND SOCIAL TRENDS: PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

On 19 July 1977 Anita Bryant was retained as a spokes-person for the Florida Citrus Commission despite her outspoken antigay opinions and activities.

On 22 February 1970 Ellsworth Bunker, Henry Cabot Lodge, Red Skelton, Anita Bryant, and Kate Smith were awarded the Freedom Foundation Award for "furthering American values."

On 4 June 1972 former University of California at San Diego philosophy professor Angela Davis was acquitted of charges that she helped to murder Judge Harold Haley in a August 1970 kidnapping attempt. The kidnapping of Judge Haley was executed in order to publicize the cause of the "Soledad Brothers," three Soledad prison inmates charged in the murder of another inmate.

Lee Elder became the first black golfer to qualify for the Masters golf tournament by winning the Monsanto Open on 21 April 1974.

First Lady Betty Ford underwent a radical mastectomy to combat breast cancer on 28 September 1974. On 5 March 1978 she was released from Long Beach (California) Naval Hospital for treatment of addiction to alcohol and painkillers.

On 6 June 1973 George F. Getty II, the oldest son of billionaire J. Paul Getty, died of an overdose of barbituates and alcohol.

Antiwar activists Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda were married on 20 January 1973.

On 3 November 1970 former American Football League quarterback Jack Kemp won a New York congressional seat.

On 30 March 1974 Henry Kissinger married Nancy Maginnes.

On 10 January 1970 book dealer Hans Kraus donated an original Amerigo Vespucci letter dated 1504 to the Library of Congress.

On 21 May 1970 Robin Lee made landfall at Long Beach, California, to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

Sportswriter Melissa Ludtke won a court case on 25 September 1978 with a ruling that she could not be denied access by the management of the New York Yankees to the baseball team's locker room after a game solely because of her sex.

Sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson were married on 7 January 1971.

In a speech on 13 August 1972 to the American Bar Association, Supreme Court associate justice Lewis Powell said that new social mores were destroying religion and the free-enterprise system.

Singer Elvis Presley died on 16 August 1977 and became an even more important pop culture icon. Two days later, two female mourners were killed when a drunk driver plowed into a crowd outside Presley's Graceland mansion in Memphis Tennessee.

Sally Priesand was ordianed as the first female rabbi in the United States on 3 June 1972.

On 13 October 1970 Charles Reich's The Greening of America was published. The book is an indictment of technology and endorsement of the 1960s youth culture.

On 15 January 1970 Diana Ross made her last appearance with the Supremes.

On 29 July 1970 Alvin Toffler's Future Shock was published. The book calls for drastic and radical changes in educational and social policies to meet the challenge of the future.