"Old times there are not forgotten"
President Richard M. Nixon visited The People's Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. U.S. representatives walked out of the Paris peace talks. North Vietnam troops moved into South Vietnam from two directions. The Paris peace talks resumed. A treaty banning the use of biological warfare was signed by 212 nations, including the United States. Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot while campaigning for president in Laurel Maryland. Gov. Wallace would never walk again. Inflation and unemployment decreased while economic growth increased and we were introduced to the Chinese medical practice of acupuncture. Metropolitan police from the District of Columbia arrested five political operatives at the Democratic National Headquarters located in the Watergate apartment complex.
New book titles: August 1914, Eleanor and Franklin, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Boys of Summer and The Best and the Brightest.
At the movies: Caberet, Cries and Whispers, The French Connection, The Godfather and Sluth.
On stage: Sticks and Bones, The Changing Room and The Sunshine Boys
Emmy awards: Keith Michell for The Six Wives of Henry VIII; Glenda Jackson for Elizabeth R; and Peter Falk for Columbo.
February 26
An earthen dam collapsed at Buffalo Creek, West Virginia desulting in 118 fatalities.
May 14
Classmate Gary Lee Schiffer received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia.
June 6
Classmate Richard William Highlander received a Master of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia.
July 29
Classmate Connie Jean Kish married classmate George Thelbert Arnold, Jr. in Beckley. Connie was a registered nurse at the Veteran's Hospital there and George was a journalism faculty member at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia at the time of the marriage.
August 12
The last American ground troops were withdrawn from Vietnam. Classmate George Winton Thompson continued to be listed as missing-in-action.
December 30
West Virginia University lost to North Carolina State by the score of 49-13 in the Peach Bowl played in Atlanta, Georgia.