More services for the public were introduced ; visitor numbers soared, with the temporary exhibition " Treasures of Tutankhamun " in 1972, attracting 1, 694, 117 visitors, the most successful in British history.

The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute ( now Tuskegee University ) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.

Its publication was one of the signature events in the birth of the environmental movement, and resulted in a large public outcry that eventually led to DDT being banned in the US in 1972.

In the summer of 1972, Ruckelshaus announced the cancellation of most uses of DDT — an exemption allowed for public health uses under some conditions.

His directorial fame escalated with the release of The Godfather ( 1972 ), a film which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, earning praise from critics and public alike.

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.

He made his final public appearance on October 15, 1972, throwing the ceremonial first pitch before Game 2 of the World Series.

The Chona report was based on four months of public hearings and was submitted in October 1972 as a ' liberal ' document.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27, 000.

In 1972, the company's legal form was changed from Kommanditgesellschaft ( KG ), or limited partnership, to Aktiengesellschaft ( AG ), or public limited company, because Ferry Porsche and his sister, Louise Piëch, felt their generation members did not team up well.

In 1972 a law was passed, the Radikalenerlass, which banned radicals or those with a ' questionable ' political persuasion from public sector jobs.

However, public reaction to the Sputnik crisis led to the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency ( renamed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA in 1972 ), NASA, and an increase in U. S. government spending on scientific research and education.

The Shuttle was originally conceived of and presented to the public in 1972 as a ' Space Truck ' which would, among other things, be used to build a United States space station in low earth orbit in the early-1990s and then be replaced by a new vehicle.

Also, the Environmental Protection Agency's ( EPA ) Clean Water Act of 1972 provided a public capital investment of $ 40 billion in constructing and upgrading sewage treatment facilities with “ significant positive impacts on the Nation ’ s water quality .” Considered by the National Academy of Engineering to be the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century, the North American electric grid carries electricity over on high-voltage transmission lines across the U. S. Though currently facing aging facilities and equipment, this public capital investment has ubiquitously reached millions of homes and businesses.

After the Duke's death in 1972, the Duchess lived in seclusion, and was rarely seen in public.

The palace opened to the public in 1972 as a museum containing such exhibits as statues formerly displayed by the cathedral, treasures of the cathedral from past centuries, and royal attire from coronations of French kings.

* The Hospital Financing Law ( 1972 ), which secured the supply of hospitals and reduced the cost of hospital care, “ defined the financing of hospital investment as a public responsibility, single states to issue plans for hospital development, and the federal government to bear the cost of hospital investment covered in the plans, rates for hospital care thus based on running costs alone, hospitals to ensure that public subsidies together with insurance fund payments for patients cover total costs ”.

* February 15 – Assuming no further extensions to the term of copyrights become law in the interim, all sound recordings fixed before February 15, 1972 will enter the public domain in the U. S.

The Central Policy Review Staff was established by Heath in February 1971, while the 1972 Local Government Act changed the boundaries of Britain's counties and created " Metropolitan Counties " around the major cities ( e. g. Merseyside around Liverpool ): this caused significant public anger.

* Assuming no further changes in the copyright law, all sound recordings fixed between February 15 and December 31, 1972 will enter public domain in the United States:

In 1972, it was found that 17 % of Australians outside of Queensland ( which had a free public health care system ) were uninsured, most of whom were on low incomes.

While René Thom is most known to the public for his development of catastrophe theory between 1968 and 1972, his earlier work was on differential topology.

In 1972, Bảo Đại issued a public statement from exile, appealing to the Vietnamese people for national reconciliation, stating, " The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord ".

Although little interest was generated among western scientists, Russians held a conference on the subject in 1972, at Kazakh State University.

Heidegger's interest in Derrida is said by Braun to have been considerable ( as is evident in two letters, of September 29, 1967 and May 16, 1972, from Heidegger to Braun ).

In 1972, after a long-running financial struggle, legal expenses, and a lack of business interest among some of the Steinway family members, the firm was sold to CBS.

In 1972, Sindona purchased a controlling interest in Long Island's Franklin National Bank.

The 2012 Summer Olympics in London opened new interest in the impact of Title IX and how the growth of sports participation by women worldwide might be ascribed to the 1972 American legislation.

McQueen expressed interest in starring as the Rambo character in First Blood when David Morrell's novel appeared in 1972, but the producers eventually rejected him because of his age.

In 1972 Fairfax bought controlling interest, and in 1983 bought out all the remaining shares.

The film had its premiere in late 1972 at the third Annual Baltimore Film Festival, held on the campus of the University of Baltimore, where it sold out tickets for three successive screenings ; the film had aroused particular interest among fans of underground cinema following the success of Multiple Maniacs, which had begun to be screened in cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

Miller retired sometime around 1972, when interest in her career had almost completely waned.

The USCF was founded in 1939 from the merger of two regional chess organizations, and grew gradually until 1972, when membership doubled due to interest in Bobby Fischer's rise to the World Championship.

The group included Þorsteinn Pálsson, Geir H. Haarde, Jón Steinar Gunnlaugsson, Kjartan Gunnarsson, Magnús Gunnarsson, Brynjólfur Bjarnason and Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson, and they published the magazine Eimreiðin from 1972 to 1975 ; in the following years they followed with interest what was happening in the United Kingdom under Margaret Thatcher and in the United States under Ronald Reagan ; they also read books and articles by and about Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek and James M. Buchanan, who all visited Iceland in the early 1980s and whose messages of limited governments, privatisation, and liberalisation of the economy had a wide impact.

To this was added an interest in tuning and in the harmonic series, as first evident in the orchestral work Clang of 1972, an interest that continued to develop for the rest of his life.

In July 1972 the Environmental Quality Board of Puerto Rico, because of growing interest in the development of the islands, made a full scientific assessment of Mona and Monita using a local team of volunteer scientists.

In 1972 the Nation of Islam took controlling interest in a bank, the Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. Nation of Islam-owned schools expanded until, by 1974, the group had established schools in 47 cities throughout the United States.

In 1972, Bell bought out Stewart's remaining interest in the company, and established a distribution deal with CBS Records.

After the death of Ross Bagdasarian in 1972 from a heart attack, the Chipmunks ' careers stalled until NBC showed interest in the original show ( the network carried Saturday morning reruns of The Alvin Show as a midseason replacement in 1979 ) and the following year, Excelsior Records released a new album of contemporary songs performed by the Chipmunks.

In 1972, Applewhite met Bonnie Nettles, a nurse with an interest in theosophy and biblical prophecy.

Following the 1972 and 1974 Summit Series, in which Canadian players from the NHL and World Hockey Association ( WHA ) competed against the top players from the Soviet Union, there was interest in a world hockey championship where each country could send its best players.

Whilst the new Pentangle incarnations and personnel changes took the band in various musical directions, interest in the original Pentangle line-up continued, with at least a dozen compilation albums being released between 1972 and 2001.

After consulting to Texas International Airlines ( TIA ) for several months, Lorenzo acquired control of it in 1972 through Jet Capital, which acquired 26 % of TIA's equity interest and 59 % of the voting power for $ 1. 15 million.

This, together with the publication of the posthumous selection Not Love Perhaps in 1972, increased interest in his work ; and his poetry subsequently appeared in school books and anthologies.

After the conflict, America showed actual interest in strengthening ties with the Chinese government by secretly sending Henry Kissinger to China for a meeting with Prime Minister Zhou Enlai in 1971, paving the way for Richard Nixon to visit China and meet with Mao Zedong in 1972, during the so-called Ping Pong Diplomacy.

Due to a lack of interest, Blythe dolls were only sold for one year in the U. S. ( produced in Hong Kong ) and also in Australia, during 1972.

* The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ( 1972 ) film starring Paul Newman and sparked new interest in Texas history.