* Jeffreys, Elizabeth and Michael, and Moffatt, Ann, Byzantine Papers: Proceedings of the First Australian Byzantine Studies Conference, Canberra, 17 – 19 May 1978 ( Australian National University, Canberra, 1979 ).

Carl Boenish was the real catalyst behind modern BASE jumping, and in 1978, he filmed the first BASE jumps to be made using ram-air parachutes and the freefall tracking technique ( from El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park ).

In December 1978, Vietnam announced formation of the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation ( KUFNS ) under Heng Samrin, a former DK division commander.

In South Australia and Western Australia the two parties compete separately, while in the Northern Territory and Queensland the two parties have merged, forming the Country Liberal Party, in 1978, and the Liberal National Party, in 2008, respectively.

Most notably, the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by Chris Miller ' 63, and is based loosely on a series of stories he wrote about his fraternity days at Dartmouth.

* 1978 – The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.

He was returned at a by-election on 13 April 1978, an important victory which was seen as halting the rise of the Scottish National Party.

To date, and with support from Europe's National Meteorological Services and the European Commission, ECMWF has conducted two major reanalyses of the global atmosphere: the first ECMWF re-analysis ( ERA-15 ) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994 ; the ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from September 1957 to August 2002.

Botha, he held a succession of ministerial posts, including Posts and Telecommunications and Sports and Recreation ( 1978 – 1979 ), Mines, Energy and Environmental Planning ( 1979 – 1980 ), Mineral and Energy Affairs ( 1980 – 1982 ), Internal Affairs ( 1982 – 1985 ), and National Education and Planning ( 1984 – 1989 ).

These include: In 1959 he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; in 1967 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences ; the ACM's Turing Award for making " basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing " ( 1975 ); the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics " for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations " ( 1978 ); the National Medal of Science ( 1986 ); and the APA's Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology ( 1993 ).

The book was a nominee for the National Book Award in 1978, and received dozens of positive book reviews, including those by well-known critics such as John Updike in The New Yorker, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the New York Times, and Marshall McLuhan in the Toronto Globe and Mail.

It was ruled as a de-facto single-party state by the Kenya African National Union ( KANU ), a Kikuyu-Luo alliance led by Jomo Kenyatta during 1963 to 1978.

In 1973 a permanent installation of his work opened at the Galleria d ’ Arte Moderna in Milan, and in 1978 a Marini show was presented at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

However, the party split in two over the decision in late 1978, with a new National Party forming and becoming independent, holding three seats in the Western Australian lower house, while the National Country Party remained in coalition and also held three seats.

He was elected on 18 June 1970 and became a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party in October 1978.

In 1970 Marangella appointed members to a " National Bureau of the Orthodox Bahá ' ís in New York ", which two years later was moved to New Mexico, and subsequently changed its name to " Mother Bahá ' í Council of the United States " ( 1978 ) and " Provisional National Bahá ' í Council " ( 2000 ), with all members appointed by Joel Marangella.

Smith finished the 1978 season with a. 258 batting average and. 970 fielding percentage, placing second in National League Rookie of the Year voting to Bob Horner.

In 1979 Laíno helped lead the PLRA, the PDC, Mopoco, and the legally recognized Febreristas, the latter angered by the constitutional amendment allowing Stroessner to seek yet another presidential term in 1978, into the National Accord ( Acuerdo Nacional ).

Former British Intelligence officer Graham Greene examined the morality of espionage in left-wing, anti-imperialist novels such as The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ) set in Sierra Leone, the seriocomic Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ) occurring in the Cuba of dictator Fulgencio Batista before his deposition by Fidel Castro's popular Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 59 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ) about British support for the apartheid National Party government of South Africa, against the Red Menace.

Super Bowl XIII was an American football game between the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1978 season.

The U. S. government produced a photo alleged to showed Miskito bodies being burned by Sandinista troops ; however, the photo was actually of people killed by Somoza's National Guard in 1978.

In 1978 An Australian Prayer Book was produced which sought to adhere to this principle, so that where the Liturgical Committee could not agree on a formulation, the words or expressions of the BCP were to be used.

* Ryukan Kimura, A Historical Study of the Terms Hinayana and Mahayana and the Origin of Mahayana Buddhism, Indological Book Corp., 1978

He also had an entry in the Guinness Book of Records, 1978 edition, for brewing the strongest commercially brewed beer.

* The Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays ( 1978 )

Reversible Blackwork: Book One, Self-Published ; 1978.

He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for Arctic Dreams ( 1986 ) and his Of Wolves and Men ( 1978 ) was a National Book Award finalist.

* Of Wolves and Men ( 1978 ), National Book Award finalist

* 1978 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical ( On the Twentieth Century, winner )

The trilogy was released 1978 in omnibus edition titled The Dragonriders of Pern by Nelson Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1978 ( hardcover, ISBN 0-07-007030-X ); New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981 ( paperback, ISBN 0-442-28260-5 ).

* 1978 – Merton, Thomas, The Seven Storey Mountain ( 1978 ), A Harvest / HBJ Book, ISBN 0-15-680679-7.

* Big Book of Science Fiction ( 1950 ) Variant Title: The Classic Book of Science Fiction ( 1978 )

* Gifford, Barry and Lawrence Lee Jack's Book An Oral Biography Of Jack Kerouac, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978.

On the other hand, some believers in the Book of Mormon, such as Marvin Perkins, see these changes as better conforming the chapter headers and footnotes to the meaning of the text in light of the LDS Church's 1978 Revelation on Priesthood.

* Guinness Sports Record Book ( 1977 – 1978 )

In 1978, World Book was purchased by the firm of Scott Fetzer, which in turn is a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary.

* Fanny & Johnnie Cradock's Freezer Book ( W H Allen, 1978 )

* " The American Record Label Book " by Brian Rust ( Arlington House Publishers, 1978

According to Merrill, the spirits ordered him to write and publish the next two installments, Mirabell: Books of Number in 1978 ( which won the National Book Award for Poetry ) and Scripts for the Pageant in 1980.

The Book of Mormon Historic Publication Site has been maintained by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1978 as a tourist destination and was restored and rededicated in 1998.

* Arthur Baker, Dance of the pen, ( Art Direction Book Co., 1978 ) ISBN 0-910158-45-2