* 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian ( d. 1970 )

* 1970 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.

The novel, " Chicano " by Richard Vasquez, was the first novel about Mexican-Americans to be released by a major publisher ( Doubleday, 1970 ).

In 1970, Richard Young, Alton Becker, and Kenneth Pike published Rhetoric: Discovery and Change, a widely influential college writing textbook that used a Rogerian approach to communication to revise the traditional Aristotelian framework for rhetoric.

The medal was created on July 9, 1970 by President Richard Nixon in.

The National Environmental Policy Act ( 1969 ), the Clean Air Act ( 1970 ), the Clean Water Act ( 1972 ), and the Endangered Species Act ( 1973 ) all were enacted with broad bipartisan support, and ultimately signed into law by Republican President Richard Nixon.

Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

In March 1970 he became the first of the scientist-astronauts to be assigned to space flight, joining Richard F. Gordon, Jr. ( Commander ) and Vance Brand ( Command Module Pilot ) on the Apollo 15 backup crew.

* 1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.

Examples include Piet Mondrian's Dam and Ocean ( 1915 ), Joan Miró's Labyrinth ( 1923 ), Pablo Picasso's Minotauromachia ( 1935 ), M. C. Escher's Relativity ( 1953 ), Friedensreich Hundertwasser's Labyrinth ( 1957 ), Jean Dubuffet's Logological Cabinet ( 1970 ), Richard Long's Connemara sculpture ( 1971 ), Joe Tilson's Earth Maze ( 1975 ), Richard Fleischner's Chain Link Maze ( 1978 ), István Orosz's Atlantis Anamorphosis ( 2000 ), Dmitry Rakov's Labyrinth ( 2003 ), and Labyrinthine projection by contemporary American artist Mo Morales ( 2000 ).

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

* 1970 – President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.

* 1970 – U. S. President Richard Nixon asks the U. S. Congress for $ 155 million USD in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.

* Gordon, Richard ( editor ), The Australian New Left: Critical Essays and Strategy, Melbourne: Heinnemann Australia, 1970.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40, 000 more troops before Christmas

* 1970 – Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as " a maneuver to deceive world opinion ".

Other sympathetic fictional portraits of Richard III include Michael Tyler-Whittle's 1970 novel Richard III, The Last Plantagenet.

They include " Indiscreet ( 1958 ), John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Richard Fleischer's The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ), Airport ( 1970 ), Woodstock ( 1970 ), Carrie ( 1976 ) and More American Graffiti ( 1979 ).

The term " speciesism ," and the argument that it was simply a prejudice, first appeared in 1970 in a privately printed pamphlet, titled " Speciesism ," written by British psychologist Richard D. Ryder.

Richard D. Ryder coined the term " speciesism " in 1970.

* The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar ( Richard Gilbertson, 1970 )

Also in 1970, Sharp curated “ Body Works ,” an exhibition of video works by Vito Acconci, Terry Fox, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Dennis Oppenheim and William Wegman which was presented at Tom Marioni's Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California.

" Comics ,” wrote Capp in 1970, “ can be a combination of the highest quality of art and text, and many of them are .” Capp would produce many giveaway educational comic books and public services pamphlets, spanning several decades, for the Red Cross, the Department of Civil Defense, the Department of the Navy, the U. S. Army, the Anti-Defamation League, the Department of Labor, Community Chest ( a forerunner of United Way ), and the Job Corps.

In his memoirs published in 1970, Khrushchev wrote, “ In addition to protecting Cuba, our missiles would have equalized what the West likes to call ‘ the balance of massive nuclear missiles around the globe .’”

In 1970, he wrote a number of papers that outlined a new approach to database construction that eventually culminated in the groundbreaking A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.

In 1970, he wrote the book The Shark: Splendid Savage of the Sea with Philippe, his son.

Loglan ’ s inventor, James Cooke Brown, also wrote a utopian science fiction novel The Troika Incident ( 1970 ) that uses Loglan phrases but calls the language a different name, " Panlan ".

From 1934 until 1970 Kaplan wrote a series of books in which he expressed his Reconstructionist ideology, which centred on the " concept of Judaism as a civilization ".

The term was popularized by the Soviet dissident Michael Voslenski, who in 1970 wrote a book titled Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class ().

In 1970 he wrote a book on the subject, The Science of Hitting ( revised 1986 ), which is still read by many baseball players.

However, a similar objection was noted by Thomas Nagel in 1970 who claimed that consequentialism ‘ treats the desires, needs, satisfactions, and dissatisfactions of distinct persons as if they were the desires, etc., of a mass person .’ and even earlier by David Gauthier who wrote that utilitarianism supposes ‘ that mankind is a super-person, whose greatest satisfaction is the objective of moral action.

He wrote of his suggestion of a cultural norms theory in 1970, an idea that, in his estimation, " provided the foundation for the more comprehensive social expectations theory " ( DeFleur & Ball-Rokeach, 1989 ).

In 1970 Piazzolla returned to Paris where with Ferrer he wrote the oratorio El pueblo joven premiered in Saarbrücken, Germany in 1971.

* Jean Giono ( 1895 – 1970 ), born in Manosque, wrote about peasant life in Provence, inspired by his imagination and by his vision of Ancient Greece.

In May 1967, the Salisbury Daily Times referred to Twiggy as a supermodel ; the February 1968 article of Glamour magazine listed all 19 " supermodels "; the Chicago Daily Defender wrote " New York Designer Turns Super Model " in January 1970 ; The Washington Post and Mansfield News Journal used the term in 1971 ; and in 1974 both the Chicago Tribune and The Advocate also used the term " supermodel " in their articles.

The final development of the history and geographical nature of Gondor took place around 1970, in the last years of Tolkien's life, when he invented justifications for the place-names and wrote full narratives for the stories of Isildur's death and of the battles with the Wainriders and the Balchoth ( published in Unfinished Tales ).

Derleth wrote in 1970, " he fact is that in no single year since its founding have the earnings of Arkham House met the expenses, so that it has been necessary for my personal earnings to shore up Arkham House finances.

In a 1970 concert Norman wrote " The Tune ", which one reviewer described as " probably ... Larry's finest achievement as a songwriter and recording artist ", while improvising on the piano.

Comden and Green wrote the libretto for the 1970 musical Applause, an adaptation of the film All About Eve, and wrote the book and lyrics for 1978's On the Twentieth Century, with music by Cy Coleman.

Taylor also wrote the introduction for Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain by Len Deighton in 1970.

After the successful BBC dramatisation of 1968, the film rights were bought by the actor Lionel Jeffries, who wrote and directed the film, released in 1970.

In 1970 he wrote a short story called Experiences about a lovers ' lane in a Midwestern United States farming community and the " light show " a group of teenagers see in the night sky.

Townshend also wrote three sizeable essays for Rolling Stone magazine, the first of which appeared in November 1970.

Similarly, Clarkson wrote and published her own romantic fiction novels: A Lover More Condoling in 1968, and Hunger Trace in 1970.

Commenting on this in 1970, the author Geoffrey Wolff wrote:

Several of Crumb's works, including the four books of madrigals he wrote in the late 1960s and Ancient Voices of Children, a song cycle of 1970 for two singers and small instrumental ensemble ( which includes a toy piano ), are settings of texts by Federico García Lorca.