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1978: A Year in the Collections

Disco was still going strong after the release of Saturday Night Fever in 1977. The blockbuster exhibition, Treasures of Tutankhamun, continued to tour the country. In September, President Jimmy Carter invited Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, where dual peace accords were negotiated. In October, Pope John Paul II was inaugurated as Pope.


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Warren Beatty

John Travolta

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Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood

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Pin back button from Commodores 1978 Platinum Tour

Chuck Berry

Faye Dunaway

Gelsey Kirkland

Merce Cunningham

Cynthia Gregory in "The Firebird"

NATO: Getting Tough

Jerome Robbins

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