The new owners pushed the company into modernising its line, producing the V8 Vantage in 1977, the convertible Volante in 1978, and the one-off William Towns-styled Bulldog in 1980.

" William and Mary Quarterly 1978 35 ( 4 ): 607 – 628.

* 1978 – Censorship: the People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.

* Hunter, Robert and McTaggart, David, Greenpeace III: Journey into the Bomb ( London: William Collins Sons & Co., 1978 ).

* Dever, William G. ( 1978 ), " Kathleen Kenyon ( 1906-1978 ): A Tribute ", BASOR 232 ( 1978 ), pp. 3 – 4.

* The Kingfisher ( William Douglas Home, Lyric Theatre 1977, Biltmore NY, 1978 )

* 1895 – William Grant Still, American composer ( d. 1978 )

Director William Friedkin, when discussing Falk's role in his 1978 film The Brink's Job, said that " Peter has a great range from comedy to drama.

In 1978, the NASA SETI program was heavily criticized by Senator William Proxmire, and funding for SETI research was removed from the NASA budget by Congress in 1981, however, funding was restored in 1982, after Carl Sagan talked with Proxmire and convinced him of the program's value.

William C. Sturtevant ( Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978 )

* Everson, William K., American Silent Film ( 1978 ) Oxford University Press

* William G. McLoughlin ; Revivals, Awakenings and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607-1977 ( 1978 )

* McLoughlin William G. Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607 – 1977, 1978.

* Neighbour, O., The Consort and Keyboard Music of William Byrd ( London, 1978 )

Indeed, Chief Justice William Rehnquist repeatedly criticized the Court's invention of corporate constitutional " rights ," most famously in his dissenting opinion in the 1978 case First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti.

* A Recognizable Image: William Carlos Williams on Art and Artists ( 1978 )

The Turner Diaries is a novel written in 1978 by William Luther Pierce ( former leader of the white Nationalist organization National Alliance ) under the pseudonym " Andrew Macdonald ".

William Squire voiced Gandalf in the animated film The Lord of the Rings ( 1978 ) directed by Ralph Bakshi.

* The Turner Diaries by William Pierce ( under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald ), novel ( 1978, ISBN 1-56980-086-3 ).

* Pigsticking-A Joy For Life William Rushton ( Macdonald, 1978 )

Verdon was born in Culver City, California, the second child of Gertrude Lilian ( Standring ; October 24, 1896 – October 16, 1956 ) and Joseph William Verdon ( December 31, 1896 – June 23, 1978 ), who were British immigrants to the United States by way of Canada .< ref >

Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson ( AIEE, 1889 – 1890 ), Alexander Graham Bell ( AIEE, 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( AIEE, 1901 – 1902 ), Lee De Forest ( IRE, 1930 ), Frederick E. Terman ( IRE, 1941 ), William R. Hewlett ( IRE, 1954 ), Ernst Weber ( IRE, 1959 ; IEEE, 1963 ), and Ivan Getting ( IEEE, 1978 ).

* Stuart K. Card, William K. English, and Betty J. Burr ( 1978 ).

* William Thurston, The Geometry and Topology of Three-Manifolds, Princeton University lecture notes ( 1978 – 1981 ).

In Safire's Political Dictionary ( 1978 ), William Safire defined " fellow traveler " as " one who accepted most Communist doctrine, but was not a member of the Communist party ; in current use, one who agrees with a philosophy or group but does not publicly work for it.

* Full Disclosure by William Safire ( 1978 ): The President is blinded by an assassination attempt while at a summit meeting in the Soviet Union, and an ambitious Secretary of the Treasury attempts to use the 25th Amendment to unseat him.

* 1978 – Greg Rawlinson, New Zealand rugby player

New York: Octagon Books, 1978.

In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.

Bo Diddley spent many years in New Mexico, living in Los Lunas, New Mexico from 1971 to 1978 while continuing his musical career.

In 1978 New Jersey allowed gambling in Atlantic City, now America's second largest gambling city.

Wood and Leif Andersson, New Morphometric Data for Fresh Lunar Craters, 1978, Proceedings 9th Lunar and Planet.

Although Japan eventually recognized the People's Republic in 1972, shortly after Kakuei Tanaka succeeded Sato as Prime Minister of Japan, the memory of this relationship was strong enough to be reported by The New York Times ( April 15, 1978 ) as a significant factor inhibiting trade between Japan and the mainland.

In 1978, Hubbard released New Era Dianetics ( NED ), a revised version supposed to produce better results in a shorter period of time.

New York: Kodansha International, 1978.

) With Gypsy Fever, Parton toured as a headline act in 1977, 1978 and 1979, to promote her albums, New Harvest-First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, and Great Balls of Fire.

In 1978 he published The Poverty of Theory which attacked the structuralist Marxism of Louis Althusser and his followers in Britain on New Left Review, ( famously saying "... all of them are Geschichtenscheissenschlopff, unhistorical shit.

* Benjamin Walker, Man and the Beasts Within: The Encyclopedia of the Occult, the Esoteric, and the Supernatural, New York: Stein and Day, 1978, 343 p. ISBN 0-8128-1900-4

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

* 1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor ' easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4 " an hour.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. ( 1978 ).

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978 ( Translation of Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung, 1st ed.

Most temples of the Alpha et Omega and Stella Matutina closed or went into abeyance by the end of the 1930s, with the exceptions of two Stella Matutina temples: Hermes Temple in Bristol, which operated sporadically until 1970, and the Whare Ra in Havelock North, New Zealand, which operated regularly until its closure in 1978.

Ratebzad wrote the famous New Kabul Times editorial ( May 28, 1978 ) which declared: " Privileges which women, by right, must have are equal education, job security, health services, and free time to rear a healthy generation for building the future of the country ...

* Denis, Ernest, " Huss et la Guerre des Hussites ," AMS Press, New York, 1978, ISBN 0-404-16126-X in

* 1978 – David Berkowitz, the " Son of Sam " killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.

* 1978 – Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby player

* 1978 – Claire Chitham, New Zealand actress

Their first actual multi-song concert billed as Jan and Dean took place in 1978 in New York City at The Palladium as part of the Murray the K Brooklyn Fox Reunion Show.