Dorothy Hamill 1976

Muhammad Ali 1978
 

Famous Tennis Poster of 1976

Amanda Holden (Imitation)

Nadia Comaneci - 1976

The cover of Life magazine shows a photograph of university student Joe Cullum  and others as they kneel beside wounded student John Cleary after members of the National Guard opened fire on protestors at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, May 15, 1970

Jonestown was the short-lived settlement made in Guyana by the Peoples Temple, a cult from California. Jonestown became  internationally notorious in 1978, when over nine hundred men, women and children perished, Jones among them in a mass murder-suicide orchestrated by their leader, Jim Jones. The site is now an abandoned ruin

That famous 1970s mustache doesn't appear to be slowing down Mark Spitz. You can control the watery tumult sloshing between you and the finish line without a special swimsuit in a few ways. You can lower pressure drag by controlling how you present yourself to the water, says NASA engineer Wilkinson. It's really your vertical surfaces -- that is, those perpendicular to your swimming that push the water. If you dive in sleekly, keep your body in a horizontal line as you swim and don't allow your legs to sag, you've done a lot to reduce pressure drag. The water will push hard only on your head, shoulders & fingertips.

You can cut wave drag starting with your dive. "You'll notice that when swimmers jump off a block, they spend an awfully long time underwater," says Wilkinson. "Underwater, they have much lower drag because there's no surface wave associated with it. So they'll try to get halfway across the pool before they come up." Once you pop up, if you float higher in the water, you'll push up a smaller wave in front of you. "Naturally talented swimmers seem to float better," says Jeremy Kipp, an assistant swimming coach at the University of Southern California