Popular
Songs
1. "Saturday Night" ... Bay City Rollers
2. "Canvoy" ... C.W. McCall
3. "I Write the Songs" ... Barry Manilow
4. "Theme from 'Mahogany'" ... Diana Ross
5. "Love Rollercoaster" ... Ohio Players
6. "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" ... Paul Simon
7. "Theme from 'S.W.A.T.'" ... Rhythm Heritage
8. "Love Machine Pt. 1" ... The Miracles
9. "December, 1963" ... The Four Seasons
10. "Disco Lady" ... Johnnie Taylor
Popular Movies
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2. All the President's Men
3. The Omen
4. The Bad News Bears
5. Silent Movie
6. Midway
7. Dog Day Afternoon
8. Murder by Death
9. Jaws (reissue)
10. Blazing Saddles (reissue)
Academy Awards
Best Picture: "Rocky" Best Director: John G. Avildsen ... "Rocky"
Best Actor: Jack Nicholson ... Peter Finch ... "Network" Best
Actress: Faye Dunaway ... "Network"
Grammy Awards
Record of the Year:"This
Masquerade" ... George Benson
Best Song: "I Write the Songs" ... Bruce Johnson
Best Album: "Songs in the Key of Life" ... Stevie Wonder
Male Vocalist: Paul Simon ...Stevie Wonder
... "Songs in the Key of Life"
Female Vocalist: Linda Ronstadt ...
"Hasten Down the Wind"
Most
Popular Books
Fiction:
1. "Trinity" by Leon Uris
2. "Sleeping Murder" by Agatha Christie
3. "Dolores" by Jacqueline Susann
4. "The Deep" by Peter Benchley
5. "1876" by Gore Vidal
Nonfiction
1. "The Final Days" by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
2. "Roots" by Alex Haley
3. "Your Erroneous Zones" by Dr.
Wayne Dyer;
4. "Passages" by Gail Sheehy
5. "Bom Again" by Charles Colson
Most
Popular Television Shows
1. Happy Days (ABC)
2. Laverne & Shirley (ABC)
3. ABC Monday Night Movie (ABC)
4. M*A*S*H (CBS)
5. Charlie's Angels (ABC)
6. The Big Event (NBC)
7. The Six Million Dollar Man (ABC)
8. ABC Sunday Night Movie (ABC)
9. Baretta (ABC)
10. One Day at a Time (CBS)
Sports
NBA: Boston Celtics vs. Phoenix
Suns Score: 4-2
NCAA Football: Pittsburgh
Record: 12-0-0
Heisman
Trophy:Tony
Dorsett,
pittsburgh,
RB points: 2,357
Stanley
Cup: Montreal
Canadiens vs.Philadelphia
FlyersSeries: 4-0
Super Bowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Dallas Cowboys Score: 21-17
US Open Golf: Jerry
Pate Score: 277 Course: Atlanta AC
Location: Deluth,
GA
World Series:
Cincinnati
Reds vs.New York Yankees Series: 4-0
Tony Awards
Best Play:
"Travesties" ... Tom Stoppard
Best Musical: "A Chorus Line"
Best Actor in a play: John Wood ... "Travesties"
Best Actress in a play: Irene Worth ... "Sweet Bird of Youth"
Best Actor in a musical: George Rose ... "My Fair Lady"
"
Best Actress in a musical: Donna McKechnie
... "A Chorus Line"
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
LIPSCOMB, WILLIAM N., U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b.
1919:
"for his studies on the structure of boranes
illuminating problems of
chemical bonding"
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Literature
BELLOW, SAUL, U.S.A., b. 1915:
"for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary
culture
that are combined in his work"
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WILLIAMS, BETTY, Northern Ireland, b. 1944; and
CORRIGAN, MAIREAD, Northern Ireland, b. 1944: Founders of the Northern
Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People).
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or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to:
BLUMBERG, BARUCH S., U.S.A., The Institute for Cancer Research,
Philadelphia, PA, b. 1925; and
GAJDUSEK, D. CARLETON, U.S.A., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,
MD,
b. 1923:
"for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin
and
dissemination of infectious diseases"
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Physics
The prize was divided equally between:
RICHTER, BURTON, U.S.A., Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford,
CA,
b. 1931;
TING, SAMUEL C. C., U.S.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT),
Cambridge, MA, (European Center for Nuclear Research, Geneva,
Switzerland), b. 1936:
"for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary
particle
of a new kind"
Pulitzer Prizes
Drama: Michael Bennett,
James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch
& Edward Kleban ... "A Chorus
Line"
Fiction: Saul Bellow ... "Humboldt's Gift"
History: Paul Horgan ... "Lamy of Santa Fe"
International Reporting:Sydney H. Schanberg ... "New York Times"
National Reporting: James Risser ...
"Des Moines Register"
Public Service: "Anchorage Daily News"
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