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 .
1977
January 3 – Jimmy Carter , Man of the Year
January 10 – The Super Bowl : the Great American Spectacle – Two football players from Oakland Raiders and Minnesota Vikings
January 17 – Rupert Murdoch with Clay Felker
January 24 – America's Mood
January 31 – The Big Freeze[1]
February 7 – Amy Carter & her dog
February 14 – Alex Haley & two Roots miniseries characters
February 21 – Andrei Sakharov
February 28 – Linda Ronstadt
March 7 – Idi Amin
March 14 – Marabel Morgan
March 21 – Chiang Ching & Mao Zedong
March 28 – Lily Tomlin
April 4 – James Schlesinger
April 11 – Air Travel: How Safe?
April 18 – DNA Furor – Tinkering with Life
April 25 – Jimmy Carter
May 2 – Uncle Sam character
May 9 – Richard Nixon & David Frost
May 16 – Mafia
May 23 – Harold Brown
May 30 – Menachem Begin
June 6 – Jody Powell & Hamilton Jordan
June 13 – Peter Frampton , Steve Cauthen , Wally Amos & Colleen McCullough
June 20 – James Earl Ray
June 27 – Adolfo Suárez
July 4 – Summer
July 11 – Youth Crime
July 18 – Rod Carew
July 25 – Blackout '77: Once More With Looting
August 1 – Sociobiology: A new theory of behavior
August 8 – Jimmy Carter , Leonid Brezhnev , Menachem Begin , Anwar Sadat , Hua Guofeng & Helmut Schmidt
August 15 – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
August 22 – Panama Canal & Uncle Sam
August 29 – The Underclass
September 5 – Fred Silverman
September 12 – Sky-High Housing
September 19 – Bert Lance & Jimmy Carter
September 26 – Diane Keaton
October 3 – John le Carré
October 10 – Revolt of the Old: The Battle Over Forced Retirement
October 17 – Jimmy Carter & Moshe Dayan
October 24 – Mstislav Rostropovich
October 31 – Hanns Martin Schleyer , Jürgen Schumann , woman terrorist, returned hostages
November 7 – Richard Leakey & a Homo Habilis
November 14 – High School in Trouble
November 21 – John Vorster
November 28 – Anwar Sadat
December 5 – After Houston : What Next for Women (Peggy Kokernot)
December 12 – Dixy Lee Ray
December 19 – The Cooking Craze
December 26 – Jesus and various faithfuls
"Fact Check — Image purporting to show Time magazine cover warning of an impending ice age is digitally altered" . Reuters. November 1, 2021.