Luverne High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Luverne, MN)

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The biggest sports news of '84 was the Summer Olympics held in Los An- geles. The Russian boycott led the way for the CJ.S. ath- letes to win a record number of gold medals. Who can for- get Carl Lewis winning four gold medals, little Mary Lou Retton winning the first gold medal in gymnastics for the U.S., or of Mary Decker as she lost all chance for a gold when she fell in the 15,000 meter finals? The ’84 Olym- pics saw many firsts for the (J.S. The first gold medal for men and women in gymnas- tics. Men's volleyball, water polo, Greco Roman wres- tling, and many other teams winning their first medals of any kind. The rest of the sports headlines were taken up with the Los Angeles Raid- ers winning the Super Bowl, the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series, and the Boston Celtics winning the NBA championships. Closer to home, Les Steckel be- came the new coach of the Vikings, the Twins finished with a .500 record for the first time in six years, and the proposed opening of a pari-mutual horse racing track in Shakopee was set for summer, 1985. 1984 marked the fourtieth anniversary of the D-Day in- vasion. War and nuclear war was also brought to our at- tention by the dramatic movie The Day After.” It offered a view of what nucle- ar war really was and what the aftermath would really bring about. The year was also marked by the death of a comedian. Andy Kaufman, Mo-town star Marvin Gaye, big band leader Duke Ellington, and the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Ghandi. The year was also tarnished by the massacre at a southern California McDonald's of twenty-one men, women, and children. 1.5

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by Paul Ebert The rage of Christmas ’83 and the fad of 84 had to be Cabbage Patch Kids. People waited in line for hours to buy one of these dolls that came with their own adop- tion papers, and no two just alike. During the summer of ’84 movie houses were packed with people viewing box of- fice smashes. Ghostbusters or Purple Rain starring Prince. Record stores were packed with discs from the outrageous Boy George and Culture Club, the eyebrow raising Prince, the unusual Cyndi Lauper, and the boss Bruce Springsteen. During the spring and summer the Democrats were holding primaries to see who would go up against the incumbent, Ronald Rea- gan. The Democrats chose Minnesota's Walter Mon- dale. In early November, the people of the (J.S. made their decision, with Ronald Reagan winning his second term. Barney Clark became the first human to receive an ar- tificial heart. He survived for 112 days on the plastic heart made by Porter Juarich. In early December the second artificial heart was success- fully transplanted into an- other human being. Science has raised many unanswered questions in '84-companies patenting DNA strands for producing human insulin, fertilizing and growin human embryos in petri dishes, splicing genes to engineer better peo- ple and offspring. 1,4

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