East High School - Quill Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Barney B. Clark smiles at his surgeon, Dr. William De- Vries, one day after surgery. Clark survives heart transplant On Dec. 2, 1982, a land- mark was set in the field of heart surgery. Barney Clark, a 61 -year-old retired dentist from Des Moines, Washing- ton, became the first human to receive a permanently implanted artificial heart. The plastic Jarvik-7 heart was the only permanent cure for cardiomyopathy and it became the essential ele- ment which sustained his life. An operation costing $15,000 and lasting IVi hours was performed by Dr. William DeVries and a 17- member surgical team. In this operation two thirds of the original heart was cut away and replaced by a pneu- matically powered heart. Although life was not going to be easy for Barney, his progress, so far, had sur- passed everyone ' s expecta- tions. Established leaders ' memories persevere Many great people passed from this life this past year. Henry Fonda, a movie leg- end with over 80 films to his credit, including The Grapes of Wrath and On Golden Pond, died in mid-August. Going from film star to princess, Princess Grace of Monaco, at the young age of 52, died in a tragic car accident. Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev died at the age of 75, leaving behind an awe- some Soviet military machine. Another great who died during the year was Ingrid Bergman, the star of Casablanca, . Visibility was limited to one-half mile on Jan. 20, when a Boeing 737 bound for Florida hit the Fourteenth Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River. There were 79 people on board. Seventy- four of them died. The weather appeared to h ave been the cause of the accident. Glycol had been put on the wings of the plane 20 to 45 minutes prior to take off. This was enough time for the wings to ice over again. Ice on the wings dragged the plane and there- by reduced the lifting power of the plane. Another possi- bility was that the engine might have sucked up slush from the runway, and that the slush diminished power during the critical climb. DEATHS IN 1982. TOP LEFT: Henry Fonda. TOP RIGHT: Princess Grace of Monaco. BOTTOM LEFT: Leonid Brezhnev. BOTTOM RIGHT: Ingrid Bergman. WASHINGTON — Patricia Felch is rescued by a paramedic after an Air Florida jetliner crashed in the Potomac River. Boeing 737 crashes into Potomac; 78 die WORLD EVENTS 25

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Joblessness ravages U.S.A. Killer uses cyanide, laces Tylenol, kills 7 Demonstrators stand in front of the White House protesting unemploy- ment, which found 12 million out of work. America recorded its highest unemployment rate in four decades — 10.8 per- cent of the laborforce — dur- ing this economically devast- ing year. Not since the Great Depression had the nation experienced an unemploy- ment rate as high as the record levels of 1982-83. Looking at it another way, over 10 million American workers were out of jobs. Up to another seven million per- sons were reported working reduced hours. Many placed the blame on President Ronald Reagan and his supply-side eco- nomic policies. Senator Edward Kennedy (Dem., Mass.) said Reagan ' s trickle- down approach was causing pink slip after pink slip after pink slip. In an effort to stimulate jobs, the Congress passed a several-billion dollar jobs program. Early in the ses- sion, Reagan felt non- military budget cuts would be the best policy to get the economy back in business. Democrats resisted, but in the end the President and Congress got together for the plan. Another terrible effect was that unemployment hurt the nation as a whole. A one per- cent rise in the joblessness rate adds 30 billion dollars to the federal deficit. The result is lost taxes and higher wel- fare costs. Compounding this dismal situation was the fact that help-wanted ads were running the lowest rate since 1973. Mary Reiner took an Extra- Strength Tylenol (laterfound to be laced with cyanide) and was dead just hours later. She and six other Chicago- area residents were victims of what has been labeled the Tylenol Tragedy. Health authorities believe the Tylenol Tragedy was the most serious incident of its kind ever experienced in the U.S. Twenty-two million bottles of Extra-Strength Tylenol were pulled off shelves across the country and recalled by Johnson and Johnson. Copy-cat cases numbered 270 in October. Mercuric chloride wasfound in Exced- rin Extra Strength. Rat poi- son was found in Anacin. Acid was found in Sinex nasal spray. Bottles of Visine held hydrochloric acid. Trop- icana orange juice contained insecticide. Although there were sus- pects, the killer was never found. One possible theory was that contamination occurred at the plant delib- erately or accidentally. But the most likely theory was that some packages were re- moved from a store, filled with cyanide and put back in the store. CHICAGO — Tylenol capsules are tested for deadly cyanide poisoning. 24 WORLD EVENTS

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S 7. 44 Rocky Adams, sophomore, vigorously does his jump- ing jacks in gym class. Starting off with 25 jumping jacks was a good way to get warmed up. ABOVE: Erik Luthens, senior, takes advantage of the card catalog, the vertical file and the dictionary, just a few of the many resources available in the library. RIGHT: Bob Sheeler, senior, works underneath a car in Mr. Russel junck ' s third hour advanced auto class. I [ 26 ACADEMICS