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POLITICS In 1970, due to political circumstances, students at many college campuses revolted against the American political system. On June 30, 1971 the United States gained 11 million voters, when Ohio rati- fied an amendment allowing 18 year olds the right to vote. In 1972, George McGovern and Thomas Eagleton became the shortest-lived presi- dential ticket in history. Eagleton was dumped when his past mental depression was brought to light. McGovern and Sar- gent Shriver then teamed up but ended up losing to Nixon Agnew. On Oct. 10, 1973, Spiro Agnew resigned as vice-president after pleading no contest to tax evation charges. On August 8, 1974, in the Oval Office, Richard Nixon made a live broadcast say- ing the he would resign the next day. His decision came after impeachment pro- ceedings started. In 1974, President Gerald Ford's Whip Inflation Now'' became his slogan for an anti-inflation program. In 1975, President Gerald Ford became the intended target when Lynette ' 'Sque- key'' Fromme aimed her gun. In 1976, a peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia named Jimmy Carter won the presidential election. Carter was the first President from the deep South since the Civil War. In January of 1977, James Carter was in- augurated to the Presidency. Carter stated in his inaugural speech that he would con- centrate on inflation. 3
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PERSONALITIES The famous blues queen Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose on Oct. 4, 1970. In 1971, Twenty-one year old Phyllis George was the first Miss America in history whose crown fell off while Bert Parks warbled ' 'There she goes .... In 1974, Heiress Patty Hearst was abducted by a group calling itself the 1 'Symbionese Liber- ation Army'1 Feb. 4. Three months later, the University of California art student had re- nounced her past life in a tape recording and made the FBI wanted list for her part in a bank robbery. In 1975, blueprints for a nuclear bomb earned Princeton's John Aristotle Phillips an A from his physics prof, but the government wasn't so pleased and swiftly classified them. Also in 1975, the right to die a natural death was an issue in the case of twenty-one year old Karen Ann Quinlan, who slipped into a coma after mixing drugs and alcohol and was put on a respirator. In 1977, the dreaded killer who called himself ' 'Son of Sam'' turned out to be a postal clerk named David Berkowitz. In 1978, Allan Bakke, a thirty-eight year old engineer, won admission to medical school when the Supreme Court ruled that he was a victim of reverse discrimination.
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