This is a list of people and other topics appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1970s. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading news magazines, an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of notability, fame or notoriety. Such features were accompanied by articles.
For the first time since 1960, all of the issues had been back to its standard Monday scheduled time frame.
For other decades, see Lists of covers of Time magazine.
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
- January 7 â John Sirica, Man of the Year
- January 14 â Inside the Brain
- January 21 â William E. Simon
- January 28 â The Telltale Tape
- February 4 â Tip O'Neill
- February 11 â James Schlesinger
- February 18 â Exxon
- February 25 â Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- March 4 â The Psychics
- March 11 â Leon Jaworski
- March 18 â Robert Redford & Mia Farrow in The Great Gatsby
- March 25 â James D. St. Clair
- April 1 â Henry Kissinger with Henry M. Jackson, Mao Zedong, Georges Pompidou, Hafez al-Assad, Anwar Sadat, Golda Meir & Leonid Brezhnev
- April 8 â World Inflation
- April 15 â Richard Nixon
- April 22 â Alcoholism
- April 29 â Patty Hearst
- May 6 â Merle Haggard
- May 13 â Richard Nixon
- May 20 â Nixon's Collapsing Presidency
- May 27 â Mid-East Massacres (victims of Ma'alot massacre and of retaliatory attacks on Lebanon at Nabatieh refugee camp)
- June 3 â Reggie Jackson
- June 10 â Henry Kissinger
- June 17 â Middle-Class Blacks
- June 24 â Richard Nixon & Anwar Sadat
- July 1 â Richard Nixon, Henry M. Jackson & Leonid Brezhnev
- July 8 â The Press: Fair or Foul
- July 15 â Leadership in America
- July 22 â Nixon & The Supreme Court
- July 29 â Republicans (Charles E. Wiggins, Robert McClory, William Cohen) & Impeachment
- August 5 â Peter W. Rodino
- August 12 â Jack Nicholson
- August 19 â Gerald Ford
- August 26 â Gerald Ford
- September 2 â Nelson Rockefeller
- September 9 â The Economy
- September 16 â Richard Nixon
- September 23 â Gerald Ford
- September 30 â William Colby
- October 7 â Betty Ford, Joan Kennedy & Pat Nixon
- October 14 â Gerald Ford
- October 21 â Jerry Brown
- October 28 â Mary Tyler Moore & Valerie Harper
- November 4 â Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- November 11 â Yasser Arafat
- November 18 â David L. Boren, Jerry Brown, Dale Bumpers, Hugh Carey, Michael Dukakis, John Glenn, Ella Grasso & Gary Hart
- November 25 â The Big Raise. Labor & Inflation
- December 2 â Yitzhak Rabin
- December 9 â The Recession
- December 16 â Joni Mitchell
- December 23 â The American Pet
- December 30 â Biblical Magi
1975
- January 6 â Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Man of the Year
- January 13 â Dr. John Laragh
- January 20 â Gerald Ford
- January 27 â Gerald Ford & Carl Albert doctoring the Economy
- February 3 â Chou En-Lai
- February 10 â Rebates and Smaller Cars
- February 17 â Henry M. Jackson
- February 24 â Bernie Parent
- March 3 â The World Arms Trade
- March 10 â American Jews & Israel
- March 17 â Cher
- March 24 â Indochina
- March 31 â Vietnam
- April 7 â America (Henry Kissinger) & the World (Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Nguyá»Â
n VÃÂn Thiá»Âu, Yitzhak Rabin & Anwar Sadat)
- April 14 â Vietnam
- April 21 â Gerald Ford
- April 28 â Jimmy Connors
- May 5 â North Vietnamese Victory
- May 12 â Ho Chi Minh
- May 19 â Mikhail Baryshnikov
- May 26 â Mayaguez Incident
- June 2 â Old Age: How to help our parents
- June 9 â Anwar Sadat
- June 16 â Margaux Hemingway
- June 23 â Scene from Jaws
- June 30 â Crime
- July 7 â Elton John
- July 14 â Adam Smith
- July 21 â U.S. & Soviet hands shaking
- July 28 â The Ford family in the White House
- August 4 â Gerald Ford & Leonid Brezhnev
- August 11 â Lisbon's Troika: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Vasco dos Santos Goncalves & Francisco da Costa Gomes
- August 18 â Charles O. Finley
- August 25 â Yitzhak Rabin, Henry Kissinger & Anwar Sadat
- September 1 â Earthquakes
- September 8 â Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich
- September 15 â Lynette Alice Fromme
- September 22 â Busing Battle
- September 29 â Patricia Hearst, alias Tania
- October 6 â Gerald Ford
- October 13 â The Maharishi
- October 20 â Abraham Beame
- October 27 â Bruce Springsteen
- November 3 â Juan Carlos
- November 10 â Sarah Caldwell
- November 17 â Donald Rumsfeld, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford & Henry Kissinger
- November 24 â Ronald Reagan
- December 1 â Bloomingdale's shoppers
- December 8 â L. C. Greenwood, Dwight White, Ernie Holmes & Joe Greene
- December 15 â Marisa Berenson
- December 22 â J. Edgar Hoover
- December 29 â Mother Teresa
1976
- January 5 â Betty Ford, Carla Hills, Ella Grasso, Barbara Jordan, Susie Sharp, Jill Ker Conway, Billie Jean King, Susan Brownmiller, Addie Wyatt, Kathleen Byerly, Carol Sutton, Alison Cheek, Women of the Year
- January 12 â Scene from Days of Our Lives (Susan Seaforth Hayes & Bill Hayes)
- January 19 â Deng Xiaoping
- January 26 â Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- February 2 â Dorothy Hamill
- February 9 â Doonesbury
- February 16 â F. Lee Bailey
- February 23 â Lockheed Scandal
- March 1 â Gore Vidal
- March 8 â Jimmy Carter with Mo Udall, Henry M. Jackson, George Wallace & Hubert Humphrey
- March 15 â Americans on the Move
- March 22 â American Chic (model Carol Gustafson)
- March 29 â Dustin Hoffman & Robert Redford
- April 5 â The Porno Plague
- April 12 â The Middle East Crisis (Lebanese Civil War photograph by Catherine Leroy)
- April 19 â Howard Hughes
- April 26 â Baseball player Babe Ruth
- May 3 â Royal Families
- May 10 â Jimmy Carter
- May 17 â Gerald Ford & Ronald Reagan
- May 24 â U.S. Catholicism
- May 31 â Paul McCartney
- June 7 â West Point Scandal
- June 14 â Enrico Berlinguer
- June 21 â Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan & Gerald Ford
- June 28 â Rediscovering America
- July 4 â Thomas Jefferson
- July 5 â Birthday Issue
- July 12 â The Bugs are Coming
- July 19 â The Democratic Convention
- July 26 â Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale
- August 2 â Nadia ComÃÂneci
- August 9 â Gerald Ford
- August 16 â Disease Detectives: Tracing the Philly Killer
- August 23 â The G.O.P. in Trouble
- August 30 â The G.O.P Strategy (Gerald Ford & Bob Dole)
- September 6 â Sex and Tennis
- September 13 â Campaign Kickoff
- September 20 â Mao Tse-tung
- September 27 â The South
- October 4 â Jimmy Carter & Gerald Ford
- October 11 â Ian Smith
- October 18 â Gerald Ford
- October 25 â Publicity still of Jessica Lange in King Kong
- November 1 â Voting Your Pocketbook
- November 8 â Jimmy Carter & Gerald Ford
- November 15 â Jimmy Carter
- November 22 â Charlie's Angels (Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson & Jaclyn Smith)
- November 29 â Robert Rauschenberg
- December 6 â Gambling Goes Legit
- December 13 â Howard Hughes
- December 20 â Hamilton Jordan, Walter Mondale & Jimmy Carter
- December 27 â Stars: Where Life Begins
1977
- January 3 â Jimmy Carter, Man of the Year
- January 10 â The Super Bowl: the Great American Spectacle â Two football players from Oakland Raiders and Minnesota Vikings
- January 17 â Rupert Murdoch with Clay Felker
- January 24 â America's Mood
- January 31 â The Big Freeze
- February 7 â Amy Carter & her dog
- February 14 â Alex Haley & two Roots miniseries characters
- February 21 â Andrei Sakharov
- February 28 â Linda Ronstadt
- March 7 â Idi Amin
- March 14 â Marabel Morgan
- March 21 â Chiang Ching & Mao Zedong
- March 28 â Lily Tomlin
- April 4 â James Schlesinger
- April 11 â Air Travel: How Safe?
- April 18 â DNA Furor â Tinkering with Life
- April 25 â Jimmy Carter
- May 2 â Uncle Sam character
- May 9 â Richard Nixon & David Frost
- May 16 â Mafia
- May 23 â Harold Brown
- May 30 â Menachem Begin
- June 6 â Jody Powell & Hamilton Jordan
- June 13 â Peter Frampton, Steve Cauthen, Wally Amos & Colleen McCullough
- June 20 â James Earl Ray
- June 27 â Adolfo Suárez
- July 4 â Summer
- July 11 â Youth Crime
- July 18 â Rod Carew
- July 25 â Blackout '77: Once More With Looting
- August 1 â Sociobiology: A new theory of behavior
- August 8 â Jimmy Carter, Leonid Brezhnev, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Hua Guofeng & Helmut Schmidt
- August 15 â Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
- August 22 â Panama Canal & Uncle Sam
- August 29 â The Underclass
- September 5 â Fred Silverman
- September 12 â Sky-High Housing
- September 19 â Bert Lance & Jimmy Carter
- September 26 â Diane Keaton
- October 3 â John le Carré
- October 10 â Revolt of the Old: The Battle Over Forced Retirement
- October 17 â Jimmy Carter & Moshe Dayan
- October 24 â Mstislav Rostropovich
- October 31 â Hanns Martin Schleyer, Jürgen Schumann, woman terrorist, returned hostages
- November 7 â Richard Leakey & a Homo Habilis
- November 14 â High School in Trouble
- November 21 â John Vorster
- November 28 â Anwar Sadat
- December 5 â After Houston: What Next for Women (Peggy Kokernot)
- December 12 â Dixy Lee Ray
- December 19 â The Cooking Craze
- December 26 â Jesus and various faithfuls
1978
- January 2 â Anwar Sadat, Man of the Year
- January 9 â Burt Reynolds & Clint Eastwood
- January 16 â Super Bowl XII
- January 23 â Robert Byrd
- January 30 â Michael Blumenthal
- February 6 â Stansfield Turner
- February 13 â Pierre Trudeau & René Lévesque
- February 20 â The Computer Society
- February 27 â Muhammad Ali
- March 6 â Cheryl Tiegs
- March 13 â Socialism
- March 20 â Coal Crisis
- March 27 â Menachem Begin & Yasser Arafat
- April 3 â John Travolta
- April 10 â Lawyers
- April 17 â The Fantastic World of Steinberg â Saul Steinberg drawings
- April 24 â Cyrus Vance
- May 1 â Gelsey Kirkland
- May 8 â Attack on the Navy
- May 15 â Prince Charles
- May 22 â Prince Fahd
- May 29 â Steve Cauthen
- June 5 â Politics of Africa (Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing & Jimmy Carter)
- June 12 â Joseph Califano
- June 19 â Howard Jarvis
- June 26 â Women in Sports
- July 3 â Warren Beatty
- July 10 â What Bakke Means
- July 17 â G. William Miller
- July 24 â Anatoli Shcharansky
- July 31 â The Test-Tube Baby: Birth Watch in Britain
- August 7 â Lobbyists
- August 14 â New Era in the Air: Cheap Fares, Crowded Flights
- August 21 â Baggio, Willebrands, Bertoli, Pignedoli & Pironio
- August 28 â Mario Puzo
- September 4 â Pope John Paul I (Conclave)
- September 11 â Menachem Begin
- September 18 â Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- September 25 â Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat
- October 2 â Jimmy Carter
- October 9 â Pope John Paul I
- October 16 â Hispanic Americans
- October 23 â Elections '78: The Tax Shelters
- October 30 â Pope John Paul II (Conclave)
- November 6 â Pat Benedict
- November 13 â To the Rescue: The battered Dollar
- November 20 â Big Winners: Adding Up the Results â Brown, Bradley, Carey, Kassebaum, Cochran and Thompson
- November 27 â Letitia Baldrige
- December 4 â Cult of Death (Jonestown deaths)
- December 11 â Michel Bergerac
- December 18 â Convention Fever
- December 25 â Jimmy Carter, Deng Xiaoping & Menachem Begin
1979
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