Parkview High School - Class of 1979

39th President:
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
Vice President:
Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale

Television

Americas Top 20 TV Favorites
60 Minutes 
Three's Company 
That's Incredible 
Alice 
M*A*S*H 
Dallas 
Flo 
The Jefferson’s 
The Dukes of Hazard 
One Day at a Time 
WKRP in Cincinnati 
Goodtime Girls 
Archie Bunker's Place 
Taxi 
Eight Is Enough 
Little House on the Prairie 
House Calls 
Real People 
CHiPs 
Happy Days 
 
- Emmy Awards - 
Drama
Best Drama - Lou Grant (CBS) 
Best Actor - Ed Asner, Lou Grant 
Best Actress - Barbara Bel Geddes,
Dallas
Supporting Actor - Stuart Margolin,
The Rockford Files 
Supporting Actress - Nancy Marchand,
Lou Grant 

Comedy
Best Comedy - Taxi (ABC)
Best Actor - Richard Mulligan, Soap
Best Actress - Cathryn Damon, Soap
Supporting Actor - Harry Morgan, M*A*S*H 
Supporting Actress - Loretta Swit, M*A*S*H 
Best Variety - IBM Presents Baryshnikov on Broadway (ABC)

Movies

(*)  Kramer vs. Kramer: $106,260,000 
(*)  The Amityville Horror: $86,432,520 
(*)  Star Trek - The Motion Picture: $82,300,000 
(*)  Apocalypse Now: $78,800,000 
(*)  The Muppet Movie: $76,657,000 

New Movie Releases
(*)  10
(*)  Alien
(*)  All That Jazz
(*)  Being There
(*)  Breaking Away
(*)  Escape From Alcatraz
(*)  Hair
(*)  Manhattan
(*)  Norma Rae
(*)  The Black Stallion
(*)  The China Syndrome
(*)  The Great Santini
 
Academy Awards
(*) Best Actor - Dustin Hoffman: Kramer vs. Kramer
(*) Best Actress - Sally Field: Norma Rae
(*) Best Director - Robert Benton:
Kramer vs. Kramer
(*) Best Picture - Stanley R. Jaffe:
Kramer vs. Kramer
(*)Best Supporting Actor - Melvyn Douglas:
Being There
(*) Best Supporting Actress - Meryl Streep:
Kramer vs. Kramer

Music

Billboard Top 10
1. Heart of Glass - Blondie 
2. My Sharona - The Knack 
3. Just When I Needed You Most -
Randy Van Warmer 
4. Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes 
5. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor 
6. Y. M. C. A. - Village People 
7. Sad Eyes - Robert John 
8. Fire - Pointer Sisters 
9. Ring My Bell - Anita Ward 
10. Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels 
 
Top Albums
(*)  Bad Girls - Donna Summer
(*)  Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits, Vol 2 -
Barbara Streisand
(*)  Breakfast in America - Supertramp
(*)  Minute by Minute - Doobie Brothers
(*)  Spirits Having Flown - Bee Gees
(*)  The Long Run - Eagles

Grammy Awards
(*)  Album of the Year: 52nd Street, Billy Joel
(*)  Best New Artist: Rickie Lee Jones
(*)  Best Pop Duo or Group: “Gotta Serve Somebody,” Bob Dylan
(*)  Best Pop Female Vocal: “I'll Never Love This Way Again,” Dionne Warwick 
(*)  Best Pop Male Vocal: 52nd Street, Billy Joel
(*)  Best Rock Female Vocal: “Hot Stuff,”
Donna Summer
(*)  Best Rock Male Vocal: “Heartache Tonight,” Eagles
(*)  Record of the Year: “What a Fool Believes,” Doobie Brothers
(*)  Song of the Year: “What a Fool Believes”

The Economy

(*)  US Population: 225,055,487
(*)  Life Expectancy: 73.9 Years
(*)  Federal Spending: $504.03 Billion
(*)  Federal Debt: $829.5 Billion
(*)  Consumer Price Index: 72.6
(*)  Unemployment: 6.1%
(*)  Yearly Inflation Rate: 11.2%
(*)  Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average: 838
(*)  Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve: 15.25%
(*)  Average Cost of New House:
$58,100.00 - $71,800.00
(*)  Average Income per Year: $16,461.00 - $17,500.00
(*)  Average Monthly Rent: $280.00
(*)  Cost of a Regular Gallon of Gas: 86 Cents
(*)  Cost of a Dozen Eggs: $0.85
(*)  Cost of a Gallon of Milk: $1.62
(*)  Sony Walkman: $200.00
(*)  Cost of a First-Class Stamp: $0.15
(*)  Jox Trainers: $14.99

News Headlines

(*)  Vietnam Takes Over Cambodia
(*)  Shah Leaves Iran for Vacation
(*)  Ayatollah Khomeini Returns To Iran from France
(*)  China Invades Vietnam
(*)  Accident At 3-Mile Island Pa., nuclear Plant Threatens Area
(*)  OPEC Announces Further Oil Price Increase, 50% in One Year
(*)  $1.5 Billion Federal Bailout Is Approved For Chrysler
(*)  US and China establish diplomatic relations; formal ties with Taiwan are severed
(*)  Voyager sends photos of Jupiter
(*)  Margaret Thatcher is elected first Woman British Prime Minister
(*)  Inflation 13.3%, Prime Rate 15.75%
(*)  "Archie Bunkers Place" with Carroll O'Conner premiers
(*)  "The Dukes of Hazard" with Tom Wopat and John Schneider premiers
(*)  California is the first state to initiate gas rationing on alternate days, many states will follow
(*)  USSR Invades Afghanistan
(*)  Margaret Thatcher elected Prime minister in UK
(*)  Severe Atlantic Storm hits Fastnet International Yacht Race and a number of boats and crew are lost
(*)  Following the Burgess, Mclean, Philby and Sir Anthony Blunt Spy Scandal he is stripped of his knighthood
(*)  SALT II arms limitation Talks signed by US and USSR
(*)  Eleven fans are killed and dozens are injured at a WHO Concert at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio
(*)  Three Mile island Nuclear Accident after fire at reactor in Pennsylvania US
(*)  Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile and takes over the Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration and Khomeini seizes power in Iran
(*)  63 Americans are taken hostage in the American Embassy in Tehran
(*)  Iran's government becomes Islamic Republic when the Shah of Persia is forced to leave
(*)  The Dictator Idi Amin is deposed in Uganda
(*)  A mob attack destroys the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan
(*)  The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.
(*)  13 Tornadoes ripped through Texas and Oklahoma
(*)  The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power and the countries name is changed to Zimbabwe
(*)  Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country
(*)  President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President Saddam Hussein replaces him in Iraq
(*)  The first British nudist beach is established in Brighton
(*)  Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin sign the first peace treaty between an Arab nation and the Jewish state
(*)  A Canadian Pacific freight train carrying dangerous chemicals is derailed causing an explosion and releasing toxic fumes causing mass evacuation in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
(*)  Lord Mountbatten and three others assassinated by the I.R.A. on August 27th . He was a British admiral, statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
(*)  Eighteen British soldiers are murdered at Warrenpoint, South Down
(*)  23 people die in Nice, France, when the coastal town is hit by a tsunami
(*)  The Sandinista National Liberation Front overthrows the regime in the Central American Republic of Nicaragua
(*)  3000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages
(*)  China institutes the one child per family rule to help control its exploding population
(*)  The world’s first anthrax epidemic begins in Ekaterinburg, Russia following a biological weapons plant accident
(*)  "American Airlines Flight 191" crashed and exploded in a field near O'Hare International Airport in Chicago
(*)  The price of oil reaches a new record of $24 per barrel
(*)  The British Conservative MP Airey Neave is killed by a car bomb
(*)  Pakistan's former Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executed

Fun Facts

(*)  In Golf, Tom Watson wins a record $462,600.
(*)  Franchise to Dunkin Donuts was $45,000
(*)  What's new: Cracker Jack ice cream bars, pocket calculator, and disposable toothbrushes.
(*)  Ad for Van Camp's Pork and Beans: "If you think asparagus has a lot of iron, you don't know beans."
(*)  Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden tour 50 cities to speak out against nuclear power.
(*)  Marlon Brando, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, and Robert Redford command $3 million per film.
(*)  Following the Three Mile Island accident, antinuclear rallies are held throughout the country.
(*)  Numerous brands of hair dryers are recalled because of suspected harmful amounts of asbestos
(*)  Muhammad Ali "officially" retires with a record of 56 (37 KOs) - 3-0

Books

- Fiction Best Sellers -
The Matarese Circle - Robert Ludlum 
Sophie's Choice - William Styron 
Overload - Arthur Hailey 
Memories of Another Day - Harold Robbins 
Jailbird - Kurt Vonnegut 
The Dead Zone - Stephen King 
The Last Enchantment - Howard Fast 
The Third World War: August 1985 -
Gen. Sir John Hackett et al. 
Smiley's People - John le Carre 

- Non-fiction Best Sellers -
Aunt Erma's Cope Book - Erma Bombeck 
The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet -
 Herman Tarnower, M.D., Samm Sinclair Baker 
How to Prosper during the Coming Bad Years -
Howard J. Ruff 
Cruel Shoes - Steve Martin 
The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise -
Nathan Pritikin, Patrick McGrady, Jr. 
White House Years - Henry Kissinger 
Lauren Bacall by Myself - Lauren Bacall 
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court -
Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong 
Restoring the American Dream -
Robert J. Ringer

- Pulitzer Fiction -
The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever 

- Pulitzer Non-fiction -
On Human Nature - Edward O. Wilson

Sports

- Football -
Superbowl XIV: Pittsburgh 31-LA RAMS 19
Pro MVP: Earl Campbell, Houston, RB
College Football: Alabama
Heisman Trophy: Charles White, USC, RB
 
Rose Bowl: USC 17, Ohio St. 16
Orange Bowl: Oklahoma 24, Florida St. 7
Cotton Bowl: Houston 17, Nebraska 14
Sugar Bowl: Alabama 24, Arkansas 9

- Basketball -
NBA Championship Winner: Seattle 4-1 (LWWWW) - Coach: Lenny Wilkens
Opposing Team: WASH. BULLETS -
Coach: Dick Motta
NBA MVP: Moses Malone, Houston, C
Ave Score: 24.8
NCAA National Champions: Michigan St 26-6 - Coach: Jud Heathcote

- Baseball -
World Series Winner: PITTSBURGH 4-3 (LWLLWWW) - Coach: Chuck Tanner
Opposing Team: Baltimore - Coach: Earl Weaver
National League MVP: Keith Hernandez, St. L
& Willie Stargell, Pit - 1B
Rookie of the Year: Rick Sutcliffe, LA - 3B
American League MVP: Don Baylor,
Cal-OF-DH
Rookie of the Year: John Castino, Min & Alfredo Griffin, Tor - 3B & SS