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When Associate Creative Director Christina Spalatin found an image of Elvis Presley meeting President Richard Nixon, we knew it was the perfect opening for our Spotlight on 1970, page 8. If Halloween is a time to celebrate the bizarre, few events fit the bill better than that Oval Office visit. It occurred a few days before Christmas that year, but no one would blame you for thinking it was Halloween. Staid, buttonedup Nixon shaking hands with the hip King seems so incongruous that the official White House photo “looks like a computergenerated joke,” as Peter Carlson wrote in Smithsonian magazine. If anything, the one of Nixon admiring Elvis’ cuff links, above, feels even weirder. We gathered a few facts about this oddest of royal visits, detailed by Carlson and others,…
■ Elvis’ assistant Jerry Schilling told Peter Carlson at Smithsonian that the trouble started in Memphis, Tennessee, where Elvis’ wife, Priscilla, and his father, Vernon, complained that the rock star had spent too much on Christmas gifts—more than $100,000 on 32 handguns and 10 Mercedes-Benzes. ■ An aggrieved Elvis needed to get away from the complaining. Eventually, he arrived in D.C. with the aim, Schilling suspected, of obtaining a federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge—something he always wanted. ■ On the flight, Elvis wrote to the president: “I would love to meet you … I will be here for as long as it takes to get the credentials of a federal agent.” He checked into the Washington Hotel with the name Jon Burrows. ■ Nixon aide Egil “Bud”…
GATHER ROUND We need your holiday pictures, especially of families at Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and other winter celebrations. Any photo with people in it is preferred over one with just objects or scenes. Label your submission “Gatherings.” DEPARTMENTS Submissions for our many standing departments are welcome. Below are a few favorites. Still can’t decide where your story belongs? Send it along and let us figure it out. » Growing Up: Joys of childhood and the teenage years. » Pictures from the Past: How we lived and looked back when. Is it a fantastic picture? Send it for consideration for our Back Cover. » True Love: From first dates to last dances. » At Work: Jobs that earned a place in your memory. » Brush with Fame: The thrill of meeting…
Some 20 million people rally for Earth Day, prompting Congress to establish the Environmental Protection Agency. The “X-Y Position Indicator,” also known as the computer mouse, gets a patent. The Beatles, the Monkees, and Simon and Garfunkel all call it quits. Love Story (the novel and the movie) leaves fans in tears. Hamburger Helper makes its first appearance on West Coast grocery store shelves. Teens go all out for tie-dye clothing and psychedelic black-light posters. And these words get entries in Merriam-Webster. ALBERTA CLIPPER: Wisconsin weatherman Rheinhart Harms names these quick-moving snowstorms that originate near the Canadian province and hit the Midwest. BAD HAIR DAY: TV journalist Jane Pauley—who owns up to a series of regrettable hairdos—claims she invented this phrase. CHINA SYNDROME: An accident at an Illinois power station…
When Hello, Dolly!, Paint Your Wagon and Sweet Charity were all released at the end of the 1960s, each lost money for the studios involved. The box-office climate was in flux, and musicals, even those with dark, complex themes, such as Bob Fosse’s Charity, were on their way out. In 1970, Julie Andrews starred in the last of these doomed big-budget musical productions in Paramount’s Darling Lili. Blake Edwards, who had brought the hilarious Pink Panther series to the big screen, produced, directed and co-wrote the film, set in London in World War I. Edwards’ creation isn’t a traditional musical as much as a tune-filled rom-com constructed from a pastiche of spy tales, silent-filmera slapstick and time-tested melodrama. Lili Smith (Andrews) poses as a British music hall singer whose patriotic…
Airport (1970) tapped into the thrill of seeing the familiar world devolve into chaos from the safety of a comfortable theater seat. Hollywood’s first big-budget film of the genre, it inspired a string of copycats. Can you name the movie that matches the cataclysm? 1 Scientists race to contain an alien organism that wiped out most of a town in New Mexico. 2 Faulty wiring ignites an undetected fire in a San Francisco skyscraper during its grand opening, above. 3 A powerful tsunami in the Mediterranean turns lives—and a cruise ship—upside down. 4 Landing a plane during a Chicago blizzard is hard enough without a mad bomber threatening to take down a 707. 5 Violent tremors strike Los Angeles, shearing buildings, collapsing bridges and weakening a dam that finally gives…
