Trivia
President: Richard M. Nixon
Vice President: Spiro T. Agnew
Population: 211,908,788
Life expectancy: 71.4 years
Dow-Jones
High: 1051
Low: 788
Federal spending: $245.71 billion
Federal debt: $466.3 billion
Inflation: 7.6%
Consumer Price Index: 44.4
Unemployment: 5.6%
Cost of a new home: $35,500.00
Median Household Income: $10,512.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.08
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.39
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.78
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $1.31
Music
Billboard's Top 10
1. Crocodile Rock - Elton John
2. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
3. Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight/Pips
4. Brother Louie - Stories
5. Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
6. Will It Go Round In Circles - Billy Preston
7. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
8. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
9. Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers
10. Love Train - The O'Jays
Top Albums
Brothers and Sisters - Allman Brothers
Chicago VI - Chicago
Goat's Head Soup - Rolling Stones
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Living in the Material World - George Harrison
No Secrets - Carly Simon
Grammy Awards
Album of the Year: Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
Best New Artist: Bette Midler
Best Pop Duo or Group: Gladys Knight and the Pips "Neither One of Us"
Best Pop Female Vocal: Roberta Flack "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
Best Pop Male Vocal: Stevie Wonder "You Are the Sunshine of My
Life"
Record of the Year: "Killing Me Softly With His Song", Roberta Flack
Song of the Year: "Killing Me Softly With His Song""
Movies
Top Grossing
The Exorcist - $165,000,000
The Sting - $159,616,327
American Graffiti - $115,000,000
Papillon - $53,267,000
Live and Let Die - $35,400,000
Academy Awards
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger
Best Actress: Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class
Best Director: George Roy Hill - The Sting
Best Picture: Tony Bill, Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips - The Sting
Best Supporting Actor: John Houseman - The Paper Chase
Best Supporting Actress: Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon
TV
Top 20 Shows
1 ) All in the Family
2 ) The Waltons
3 ) Sanford and Son
4 ) M*A*S*H
5 ) Hawaii Five-O
6 ) Maude
7 ) Kojak
8 ) The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
9 ) The Mary Tyler Moore Show
10 ) Cannon
11 ) The Six Million Dollar Man
12 ) The Bob Newhart Show
13 ) The Wonderful World of Disney
14 ) The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie
15 ) Gunsmoke
16 ) Happy Days
17 ) Good Times
18 ) Barnaby Jones
19 ) NFL Monday Night Football
20 ) The CBS Friday Night Movie
Emmy Awards
Best Drama - Masterpiece Theatre: Upstairs, Downstairs
(PBS)
Best Drama Actor - Telly Savalas: Kojak
Best Drama Actress - Michael Learned: The Waltons
Best Comedy - M*A*S*H
Best Comedy Actor - Alan Alda: M*A*S*H
Best Comedy Actress - Mary Tyler Moore: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Supporting Actor - Rob Reiner: All in the Family
Supporting Actress - Cloris Leachman: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Best Variety- The Carol Burnett Show
Sports
Football
Superbowl VIII: Miami 24 - MINNESOTA 7
Pro MVP: O.J. Simpson
College Football #1 Ranking: Notre Dame
Heisman Trophy: John Cappelletti
Basketball
NBA Championship Winner: NEW YORK 4-1 over LA Lakers
NBA MVP: Dave Cowens - Boston
NCAA National Champions: UCLA 30-0
Baseball
World Series Winner: Oakland A's over NY METS in seven
National League MVP: Pete Rose
NL Rookie of the Year: Gary Matthews
American League MVP: Reggie Jackson
AL Rookie of the Year: Al Bumbry
Books
Fiction Best Sellers
Jonathon Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
Once Is Not Enough - Jacqueline Susann
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth
Burr - Gore Vidal
Evening in Byzantium - Irwin Shaw
The Matlock Paper - Robert Ludlum
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing - Paul E. Erdman
The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
Nonfiction Best Sellers
The Living Bible - Kenneth Taylor
Dr. Atkin's Diet Revolution - Robert C. Atkins
I'm O.K., You're O.K. - Thomas Harris
The Joy of Sex - Alex Comfort
Weight Watchers Program Cookbook - Jean Nidetch
How to Be Your Own Best Friend - Mildred Newman
The Art of Walt Disney - Christopher Finch
Alistair Cooke's America - Alistair Cooke
Sybil - Flora R. Schreiber
Pulitzer for Fiction
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Pulitzer for Non-fiction
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald
Children of Crisis (Vols. 1 and 2) by Robert M. Coles
Events
Last US combat troops leave Vietnam
Senate Committee Begins Watergate Hearings
OPEC Emposes Oil Embargo
Militant Indians seize hostages at Wounded Knee S.D.
Syria and Egypt attack Israel on Yom Kuppur
Alaskan pipeline is authorized
Lyndon B. Johnson dies
Actress Betty Grabel dies
Oregon is the first state to decriminalize marijuana
Pet Rocks become a fad
