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Newsweek on Earth Day 1970

Just after the first Earth Day in 1970, Newsweek called the nationwide festivities “a bizarre national rain dance from sea to oil-slicked sea.” Read the story from our archives, plus see other historic Earth Day covers from the magazine.

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