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 January 5 – Middle Americans, Time Man and Woman of the Year January 12 – The Band January 19 – Najeeb Halaby January 26 – Biafra: End of a Rebellion February 2 – Barry Commoner February 9 – The American Indian February 16 – Jane, Henry & Peter Fonda February 23 – Anita Caspary & James Shannon March 2 – Japan's Expo '70 March 9 – Integration March 16 – Heroin Hits the Young March 23 – Inefficient America March 30 – U.S. Postal Strike April 6 – Jesse Jackson April 13 – Günter Grass April 20 – Richard Nixon April 27 – Astronauts Lovell, Haise & Swigert May 4 – Leonid Brezhnev May 11 – Cambodian Invasion May 18 – U.S. Student Protest May 25 – William Masters & Virginia Johnson June 1 – Arthur Burns June 8 – Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, John N. Mitchell, John Ehrlichman & H. R. Haldeman June 15 – Mike Nichols June 22 – Middle East Turmoil June 29 – Edward Heath July 6 – Fight over the Flag July 13 – Jerry Vernon Wilson July 20 – Henry Ford II July 27 – Alaska August 3 – Aged in America August 10 – William P. Rogers August 17 – Generation Gap August 24 – Howard Stein August 31 – Kate Millett September 7 – Elliott Gould September 14 – John Fairchild September 21 – Dawson's Field hijackings September 28 – The Arab Guerillas October 5 – Richard Nixon October 12 – Gamal Abdel Nasser October 19 – Salvador Allende October 26 – Battle for the Senate November 2 – The Urban Guerillas November 9 – Blue Collar Power November 16 – Adlai Stevenson III, John V. Tunney, James L. Buckley & Bill Brock November 23 – Big Bird November 30 – Martha Mitchell December 7 – American POWs December 14 – U.S.