Cactus High School - Cobra Yearbook (Glendale, AZ)

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happenings 1978- 79 . baby ever to be born. She was born in England on July 25, I978. Test-tube babies are not clones. they are real babies conceived outside the mother's womb tin a test tubel and then put back inside the mother to grow. The courts have given E.R.A. an extension. Not all the states needed to ratify E.R.A. did so, so the backers of the movement asked for and received an extended time to ratify the E.R.A. The Arizona senate voted against the E.R.A. amendment for the 6th time. S PORTS Muhammed Ali lost his Heavyweight box- ing title to Leon Spinks. lt was a close fight, but the judges awarded the title to Spinks. Muhammed Ali regained his heavyweight boxing title from Leon Spinks. lt wasn't quite as close this time. Woody Hayes was fired as the coach of the Ohio State football team. He became very angry at a game and struck an opposing team member repeatedly. Super Bowl Xlll between Pittsburg and Dallas rekindled the long rivalry between the two teams. The game was won by the Pitts- berg Steelers. Aflirmed won the Triple Crown of horse racing against arch-rival Ayldar, who came in second in all three races, the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes. Nancy Lopez won six tournaments in a row in golf. A very outstanding record that will be hard to match. The World Series of Baseball was between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees. The Yankees won with ease, but the dodgers put up an admirable fight. The National Basketball Association QNBAJ West beat the NBA East. Martina Navratilova won the Tennis cham- pionship at Wimbledon. MOST POPULAR MOVIES AND TELE- VlSlON OF NEW SEASON Movies National Lampoon's Animal House is about two rival college fraternity's and the crazy lives they lead. Grease is about two people trying to find love despite friends and reputations. Superman, the old comic strip character, comes to life in a movie that tells of how he came to Earth and his adventures here. lnvasion ofthe Body Snatchers-Aliens from outer space invade earth and steal people's bodies so as to continue their race in this science fiction thriller. California Suite-Neil Simon's story ofthe odd and humorous happenings in a plush hotel. Television Mork and Mindy-Mork is an estranged alien from the planet Ork who comes to live on and observe earth. He finds a friend in Mindy and together they make a hillarious pair. Battlestar Galactica-The surviving humans of a destroyed civilization assemble under the leadership of Commander Adama ofthe Batt- lestar Galactica to search for a new homeg a legendary ancestoral planet-Earth. Taxi-is a comedy about the lives and adven- tures of a company of New York cabbies. FASHIONS The in things for this year are: straight leg jeans, which are smaller around the ankle: see through jeans which are made of clear plasticg Converse tennis shoes, which are be- coming popular among girlsg body suits, which are worn with skirtsg pants or shortsg spike heels, which are very thin and highg frizzed permanents and last but not least, Disco Fever has become an epidemic in America. Senator, was married in a private ceremony which was attended only by relatives and friends. Princess Caroline of England was married in a beautiful ceremony befitting her royal station. Christina Onassis was married to a Russion man of no walth. John The Duke Wayne was operated on for stomach cancer. His entire stomach was removed and he now has a reconstructed stomach made from parts ol' his intestines. Donna Summer received Vocalist of the Year Award for her pop and disco rec ' of the past year. .1 X , ,X iagl i s g,sSiil3il. saleiisi Saw.. Pete Rose came close to breaking baseball's ' records when he hit safely for 4l consecutive MISCELLANEOUS y I games! only Joe D,MagiO has hit more. Robert Kennedy Jr., son of the assasinated N , , f ' . CSB 1 My . Y rx Q if ' fl OX . . . ' ' 1 X X Q. . Ox Y X. Qld A ' Yo GN 'X xj . X W, Xt? . If I sf ffl lr X f' I,

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r v ZQCZL iff' fx Qld! iff K dxif-Lf .1 Af gist f K es ttlttlk year to remember A N -A i .. L U - . I. 1 -If eioat A town CK, U 7 M, ,Iggy QA g Ml V jf EVM 1,7 6 I . f Iv -N CA- uw . f bw iv- A - rfifiift lcd if QQ ?Q,,.Q,v, QD 1 - - .1 K lv-'yn J I ,C .' O1 VN B ,. DEATH Cooligg . B ferc killed in fast ood Ayatullah Khomeinin after a long battle bc- left 'JJ ' 'nts h re t ed. ,Y tween his followers and government officials ejypa Nelson D. Rockefeller - Died in his omee o Still loyal to the Shah, .iq apparent heart failure, A security ofHcer found him, which led to questions as to how he aetualbf diedgl He was vice-president under President Ford. Jack Soo - He was a regular on Barney Mill- er and played Nick Yamona. He was in his mid '60s Edgar Bergan - He was a lamous ventrilo- quist. The voice and soul ofCharlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. The two dummies are in the Smithsonian Institute. Bob Crane - Hogan of Hogans Heroes was murdered in a Scottsdale. Arizona apart- ment building. Pope Paul Vl - The leader ofthe Worlds Roman Catholics died of natural causes in August of 1978. Pope Paul Vll - Pope Paul Vls successor to the Roman Catholic throne died only 34 days - 'being elected. Causes were never eer- J J VL f :IE on - the founder of the Hilton . V. :els died of old age. S 'i 'Z - The gaitoric Premeir of Israel - long struggle when complications oi Lyn. na set in and eventually killed her. Son f' .am killings of young couples in New .2 ...-'The assailant was caught. .iilside strangler killings of women in L.A. The murders have not been solved. l34 - ISO people killed in a plane collision in San Diego. A small Cessna collided with a P.S.A. jet. All 135 people in thejet, two peo- ple in the Cessna and at least eight people on the ground were killed. Over 900 people died in Jonestown, Guyanna mass murder-suicides, Rev. .lim Jones led nearly all his followers in the Peoples Temple cult to death. LOCAL AND STA TEWIDE Two girls were killed by a lone assailant in Two girls were also shot in Casa Gran e, No apparent motives were found. The girls were shot in two separate incidents as they walked the city streets. Gary Tison and Randy Greenawalt escape from prison with help from Tison s three sons. They murdered an Arizona famil y, and a Tex- as newlywed couple behire they were recap- tured. Gary Tison and one of his sons were killed in an attempt to break through a police road block. Record Hoods and rains hit Arizona. Many people have died as a result of the rapidly rising water and strong tides. Mary more arson fires ha ve been set off lately. Damages to public and personal property can be estimated in the hundreds of thousands. The new prison site has not yet been selected. Dispute over where to put the prison is a mat- ter of great urgency. NATIONAL . The United States and China have begun diplomatic relations China's Vice premeir Tcng Hsiao-ping made an important visit to America to discuss negociations. Tiawan, who seceeeded from China had and is one of the U.S.'s allies, is very upset that America now wants China to become allies as well. President Jimmy Carter, Egypt's Anwar Sadat and lsrael's Menachem Begin began peace talks at Camp David, Maryland, The talks appeared to be a success, but negocia- tions broke off soon afterward. The Shah of lran has been overthrown. A great revolution has been taking place in lran. The country is now ruled by religious leader lnflation is still going up. lt is now two times higher than in I967. No relief is in sight as yet. Ben Abruzzo, age 48, Max Anderson, 44, and Larry Newman, 31, became the first men to fly a hot air balloon, The Double Eagle ll across the Atlantic. They made the historic 3100 mile trip from the coast of Maine to a small town five miles from Paris, France in five days. The courts have reopened the cases of the assasinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Referring mainly to Kennedy, officials say they believe there was a conspir- acy against the President and that there was actually another assasin besides Lee Harvey Oswald. They believe there may also have been a conspiracy against King, but they have no proof. Synannon founder Charles Dedrieh has been accused of the bizzare rattlesnake attack on Arizona lawyer Paul Norantz. Norantz found a four foot rattler in his mailbox and was bitten. He recovered and Dedrieh was arrested in connection with the crime. NASA's Sky Lab has begun to fall from orbit. After trying very hard to repair the aging space station, NASA has decided to try and give it a partially controlled re-entry. They hope this will give Sky-Lab a chance to break up in the atmosphere. President Carter gave Putty Hearst a par- don from prison. She was accused and con- victed of robbing a bank. Refugee Boat People from Viet Nam flee for shelter to neighboring countries in tiny, unseaworthy and sometimes hand-made boats. As many as 250 men, and women and especially children have been crammed into small fishing boats for weeks at a time trying to escape the Viet Nam prison camps and the war. Loiskloy Brown became the first test-tube . A if . ,grotvwjil XV. , -Q ,Luv bgpdigxbqjfufif 6JXxlkbq!K Ya' fb 5 T ' WX of WO Q7 Of ,XD mf gf . KX ry Q KQC- Cubqf gg J f ii ' yi-3 V if of . hit? S QW . Q o f t if X-ji, by ' U . ,fe XJ ax X4 I l Q7 jig fu yaH95tyfwQQmtF . g t 4 QSM Uv' X I f ,, .K I X 1 IA 1

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This has been an interesting year at Cactus and it has been a thrill helping capture the years' events for you. I would like to thank the staff for all the time they have put into it, especially those who put in .Xextra hours. I would like to thank Mr. Yel- lin for putting up with the inconve- nience we have put him through, and the photo staff for all the help they have been. I would like to thank Mr. Combs, Julie Ramsey, ' and Guy Gruhlke for allowing us'to use their photographs. I would like to thank the teachers of staffers who excused them from class to work on the book and espe- cially our advisor, Miss Osuna. There were many hard times for us, and she stayed in there, put up with our ignorance on yearbook terminol- ogy and still managed to remain sane, somehow. - Most of all, though I would like to thank you, the students at Cactus for it is you who make up the book and I hope you will enjoy it as much as l did putting it together. K