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1970: A MULTICOLORED BEGINNING The world in 1970 was very different from the world in which we live today. Politics, styles, economics . . . all have changed drastically in the past 18 years, as no doubt they will continue to change through the next 18 years. 1970 was the beginning of a new decade — and a troubled one. The “conflict” in Vietnam still raged on, claiming the lives of hundreds every week. The entire nation suffered with the young soldiers, fighting for a cause they didn’t believe in and couldn’t understand. It was a time of controversy, of confusion and contradiction, a time to grow up quickly. Despite the war, American youth at home were searching for peace — a peace they found in communes, at Wood-stock, through experimentation with drugs, in flowers and in love. They were known as hippies and their liberal views had a definite effect upon modern society. Brightly patterned clothing, bell-bottomed blue jeans, and ultra mini dresses graced the fashion pages in 1970, along with wigs and false eyelashes. Robert Redford was a hot new item, and Johnny Carson still had black hair. Nixon reigned in the oval office, as yet untarnished by the infamous Watergate scandal four years later, and mankind’s “giant step” was still in the planning 4 OPENING
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