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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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Merce Cunningham

Coal Miner

China's Great Leap Outward

Anatoli Borisovich Shcharansky

Pierre Trudeau and Rene Levesque

Test Tube Baby

Cynthia Gregory in "The Firebird"

Exidy Sorcerer Microcomputer

Saks Fifth Avenue: December 1978

$1 Rush Lamp and Candle Holder single

Mary Grace Potter, VIARC Director

Alligator Spring

Donation by "All in the Family" Cast

Tax Slashers

Me at the Renwick

Grayson Harding prepares meal, NZP

Coleman's Cafe, Greensboro, Alabama

Bobby DelVecchio

Jim Fixx

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Ted Kennedy

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King Fahd

Toni Morrison

Summit After Shocks

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NATO: Getting Tough

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Chaos in Italy

Jerome Robbins


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