* 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.

" Yokum " was a combination of yokel and hokum, although Capp established a deeper meaning for the name during a series of visits around 1965 – 1970 with comics historians George E. Turner and Michael H. Price.

In 1970, longtime professor of mathematics and computer science John George Kemeny became president of Dartmouth.

The ceremony was first conducted with the Prince of Wales ( the future Edward VIII ) in 1927, then with King George VI in 1939, and last with his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II in 1959 and 1970.

# 1970 – 1982 George T. Richardson

* George Rochberg – Caprice Variations ( 1970 ), 50 variations for solo violin

" This was elaborated by George Speaight in his Punch & Judy: A History ( 1970 ), who explained that the plotline " is like a story compiled in a parlour game of Consequences ... the show should, indeed, not be regarded as a story at all but a succession of encounters.

* Punch & Judy: A History by George Speaight ( 1955, 1970 ) Plays, Inc.

* 1970 – George Lynch, American basketball player

After finishing the 1970 season with a 6 – 8 regular season record, the Redskins hired George Allen as their head coach, hoping he could turn the team's fortunes around.

* Company ( 1970 ) ( book by George Furth ; directed by Hal Prince )

Another film, Patton ( 1970 ), showed the actions of real life General George S. Patton, but intermixed action with commentary about how he waged war, in North Africa and the Sicilian campaign, showing good and bad sides to a command.

After the death of Lombardi and Austin's unsuccessful 1970 season, Williams signed former Los Angeles Rams head coach George Allen as head coach on January 6, 1971.

* June 4 – George Watkins, American baseball player ( d. 1970 )

* June 7 – George Szell, Hungarian conductor ( d. 1970 )

Patton was the focus of the epic 1970 Academy Award-winning film Patton, with the title role played by George C. Scott in an iconic, Academy Award winning performance.

Sir George Williams University's Henry F. Hall Building in 1970.

* Marsden George M. The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian Experience: A Case Study of Thought and Theology in Nineteenth-Century America ( 1970 ).

Sir Edward Richard George " Ted " Heath, KG, MBE, PC ( 9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005 ) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( 1970 – 74 ) and as Leader of the Conservative Party ( 1965 – 75 ).

The title track, written by Bob Dylan and previously recorded by ex-Beatle George Harrison for his 1970 album All Things Must Pass, was her first international hit ( No. 25 Pop, No. 1 Adult Contemporary (" AC ")).

* 1970 — George Carruthers observes molecular hydrogen in space

The first digital electronic watch, a Pulsar LED prototype in 1970, was developed jointly by Hamilton Watch Company and Electro-Data, founded by George H. Thiess.

In 1970, Creighton replaced Lawson as editor ( there had been growing resentment between the two men ) with George Gale.

Throughout 1970, Ellsberg covertly attempted to persuade a few sympathetic U. S. Senators — among them J. William Fulbright, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and George McGovern, a leading opponent of the war — to release the papers on the Senate floor, because a Senator could not be prosecuted for anything he said on the record before the Senate.

Scott portrayed George S. Patton in the 1970 film Patton and researched extensively for the role, studying films of the general and talking to those who knew him.

As an homage to Schoenberg, the English composers Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle founded The Pierrot Players in 1967 ; they performed under that name until 1970.

Another album recorded in 1974 that was rejected by Word Records was Streams of White Light Into Darkened Corners, a documentary album that took " a satirical look at the early 1970s ' religious pop music ' trend from 1970 to 1974 ", written by celebrities who had " jumped on the ` 70s spiritual bandwagon ", and featured Norman singing covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, and the Rolling Stones, and was not released until 1977 by AB Records.

Wild rumours swirled about that former Beatles George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr would reunite for the first time since the band's dissolution in 1970, joined by Julian Lennon.

In 1970, George Harrison released All Things Must Pass ; the album's echo-drenched sound and fluid arrangements are considered a more direct influence on the genre.

This line-up ( Voormann, Lennon, Harrison and Starr ) did perform in various combinations on Lennon's albums, John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band ( 1970 ) ( Voormann, Lennon, and Starr ) and Imagine ( 1971 ) ( Voormann, Lennon & Harrison ) as well as on Ringo Starr's eponymous album Ringo, in 1973, and Yoko Ono's Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band ( 1970 ) ( Voormann, Lennon, Starr, and Ono ).

Friar Park is a 120-room Victorian neo-Gothic mansion in Henley-on-Thames once owned by an eccentric lawyer named Sir Frank Crisp and purchased in January 1970 by musician George Harrison.

Charles Harrison and Mel Ramsden joined the group in 1970, and between 1968 and 1982 up to 50 people were associated with the group.

One Step from Earth is a collection of science fiction stories written by Harry Harrison and published in 1970.

Harrison grew up with his parents in Henley-on-Thames, in Friar Park, the estate on which his father had lived since 1970.

William Harrison " Bill " Withers, Jr. ( born July 4, 1938 ) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985.

# James L. Harrison ( 1961 – 1970 )

* Oratora Konkurso Rezulto: Autoro de la Jaro ( Portrait of Lou Harrison, 1970 )

* Rich Harrison ( born 1970 ), record producer and songwriter

In 1969 – 1970, Mason toured with Delaney and Bonnie and Friends along with Eric Clapton and George Harrison.

* 1970 All Things Must Pass-George Harrison

In 1970, she began work in New York as a receptionist at ABKCO Records, Allen Klein's management office, which at that time represented Apple Records and three former Beatles: Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.

Harrison was arguably a dark horse in seeking a solo career after having been overshadowed among The Beatles by Lennon and McCartney, despite his creating several of the band's more popular later songs ( such as " Here Comes the Sun " and " Something "), and being the first ex-Beatle with a number-one ranked solo album and single ( All Things Must Pass and " My Sweet Lord " in 1970 ).

* " Wah-Wah " ( song ), a 1970 song by George Harrison from All Things Must Pass

Other notable early 70s films were Churchill's Leopards ( 1970 ), directed by Maurizio Pradeaux and also starring Giacomo Rossi-Stuart and Klaus Kinski, in which Harrison got to play a double role ; Acquasanta Joe ( 1971 ), directed by Mario Gariazzo and starring Ty Hardin and Lincoln Tate, an otherwise mediocre western worth mentioning for having Harrison cast against type as a villain ; and Dig Your Grave, Friend ... Sabata's Coming ( 1971 ), directed by Juan Bosch, a western livened up by the presence of Spanish actor Fernando Sancho.