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1974    
   
1- National Zoo environmental graphics: Wyman & Cannan
  
     
  2- NASA “worm” logo (discontinued in 1992): Dane & Blackburn
     
1- Department of Transportation Symbol Signs: Cook and Shanosky Associates
  
     
  2- Earth tones marked the ‘70s. Rusts, oranges and browns and the infamous avocado green make the ‘70s often the butt of color jokes
     
1- Kawasaki “Let the good times roll” campaign: Cunningham & Walsh
  
     
  2- Southern Airways “orgy” TV commercial: McDonald & Little, agency; Sedelmaier Films, production company

 

    
1- United Airlines trademark: Saul Bass & Associates
  
     
  2- Ragu Spaghetti Sauce: “Now that’s Italian!” TV commercial: Waring & LaRosa, agency; Bob Giraldi, production company
1974 Politics e culture  
Patty Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation ArmyMoreno invents smart card for storing and processing computer data
Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR and stripped of Soviet citizenship
Arafat welcomed at UN
End of dictatorship in Portugal
Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record		 Nixon resigns, Gerald Ford becomes president
1975  
   
1- National Air & Space Museum poster: James Miho
  
     
  2- ITC Garamond designed by Tony Stan (adapted from M.F. Benton)
     
1- Wall Street Journal campaign: Jim Johnston Advertising
  
     
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1975 Politics e culture  

First laser phototypesetter introduced by Monotype
First word processors whith VDTs introduced by wang, Vydec, Lexitron, and Linolex
Home Box Office launched by Time Inc.
“Gunsmoke” ends after 20 years
Bic disposable razor
Apollo-Soyuz mission
Death of Franco and Chiang Kai-Shek
Khmer Rouge takes Phnom Penh
Start of Lebanese civil war
Jaws is first $100 million film
End of U.S. involvement in Vietnam
Altair 8800 first personal computer on market
Byte begins publication
   Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak design the Apple I
1976  
   
1- NBC introduces new logo; discovers it to be almost identical with that used by the Nebraska ETV Network
  
     
  2- Wet magazine: April Greiman in collaboration whith Jayme Odgers
     
1- Kawasaki: “Ultimate Trip” TV commercial (Hallucinogenic imagery of motorcycle ride caused this ad to be censored by ABC & CBS for being “anti-social” and “inducing people to take drugs” and “contributing to the use of drugs by motorcyclists”): J. Walter Thompson, agency; Robert Abel & Associates, production company
  
     
  2- Campaign for North Carolina Department of Tourism: mcKinney Silver & Rockett
     
 
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1976 Politics e culture  
WTBS becomes “superstation” on cable TV
Cray 1 supercomputer
U.S. Bicentennial
Roots published		 Jimmy Carter elected
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