1979 Miscellaneous Trivia

• Electronic games like Speak and Spell, Chess Challenger and Little Professor are a hit.
• In golf, Tom Watson wins a record $462,600.
• The cost of a franchise to Dunkin Donuts was only $45,000.
• What's new: Cracker Jack Ice Cream Bars, pocket calulators, and disposable toothbrushes.
• Ad for Van Camp's Pork and Beans: "If you think asparagus has a lot of iron, you don't know beans."
• Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden tour 50 cities to speak out against nuclear power.
• Marlon Brando, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, and Robert Redford coommand $3 million per film.
• Following the Three Mile Island accident, anti-nuclear rallies are held throughout the country.
• Numerous brands of hair dryers are recalled because of suspected harmful amounts of asbestos.
• Muhammad Ali "officially" retires with a record of 56-3-0. (37 of those were KO's!)