Read more 1970s stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/24409/1970s.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:59:18 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/56504/five-70s-cars-that-plain-suck.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 1970s was "a decade of excess mediocrity in so many quarters it's hard to catalog it all," Tony Borroz writes in Wired . But you can start with the cars. Here follow five total flops. Ford Mustang Cobra II: "An over-glorified Pinto" that made a "mockery of the venerable Cobra...http://www.newser.com/story/56504/five-70s-cars-that-plain-suck.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 19 Apr 2009 13:06:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53564/march-madness-it-all-started-with-larry-and-magic.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMarch wasn't always so mentally unstable. A new book claims the whole college roundball craze started 30 years ago, when Michigan State and Indiana State—and their stars, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird—met in the title game. “You couldn't have asked for a better dynamic between these two central...http://www.newser.com/story/53564/march-madness-it-all-started-with-larry-and-magic.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Mar 2009 12:16:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/49552/womyns-lands-dwindle-as-gays-go-mainstream.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSo-called "womyn's lands" are quietly persisting across North America but face a cultural shift as modern gays embrace mainstream society, the New York Times reports. Founded in the 1970s to give lesbians man-free, safe, non-judgmental communities, the roughly 100 groups have seen membership dwindle and populations age. “In 20 to...http://www.newser.com/story/49552/womyns-lands-dwindle-as-gays-go-mainstream.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 31 Jan 2009 17:48:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43357/the-culture-wars-college-football-style.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe cultural disconnect between conservative college football programs and America’s liberalizing culture in the late 1960s and early ‘70s is the theme of War as They Knew It , a book by Detroit Free Press columnist Michael Rosenberg. The survey of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry (which continues tomorrow) through the prism...http://www.newser.com/story/43357/the-culture-wars-college-football-style.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 21 Nov 2008 17:00:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/31530/campuses-shift-to-middle-as-radical-profs-retire.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagUniversity campuses all over the country are becoming less passionate and more businesslike as liberal '60s professors retire, the New York Times reports. The process is expected to accelerate over the next decade as Baby Boomers hired in the great '70s expansion of higher education move on, to be replaced...http://www.newser.com/story/31530/campuses-shift-to-middle-as-radical-profs-retire.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 03 Jul 2008 3:52:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/23978/lost-photos-of-elvis-discovered.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagClose to 40 photographs of a jump-suited, cape-toting Elvis Presley rocking the house at Madison Square Garden in 1972 have surfaced and will be on display next month at Graceland in an exhibit entitled, "Elvis Jumpsuits: All Access." One of them already graces a Times Square billboard. A longtime official...http://www.newser.com/story/23978/lost-photos-of-elvis-discovered.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 10 Apr 2008 2:55:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/20173/jackie-moon-plugs-old-spice.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn its latest move to shed its image as a '70s relic, Old Spice has hired a '70s relic as its spokesman: the Afro-ed, headband-sporting basketball player Jackie Moon. Old Spice hopes Moon, a Will Ferrell character starring in the upcoming Semi-Pro , will attract the coveted young male demographic with...http://www.newser.com/story/20173/jackie-moon-plugs-old-spice.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 27 Feb 2008 12:10:00 CST