SUNY Plattsburgh - Cardinal Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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Even if the average baseball fan is not a Yankee fan, he must admit that the succession of events that led to a second consecutive championship for the Yankees was quite incredible. Yankee fans remember July 1978, when their 1977 World Series Champs were fourteen games off the lead. The change in one year had been astonishing. The team seemed to be wracked with many injuries. Two of their million dollar pitchers were out for the season, Messersmith and Gullett. Mid-season, Billy Mar- tin was fired and replaced by Bob Lemon. At that time the Yankees were ten games back. Then the tremendous climb came. The season came down to a one game divisional playoff, which the Yankees won. The Yanks finished off Kansas City in a repeat per- formance of the previous year ' s playoffs. The World Series went six games. Los Angeles won the first two games 11-5 and 4-3 and Yankee fans were shivering. The Yankees then won four consecutive games, 5-1, 4-3, 12-2, and 7-2. Yankee fans were again content. Their team owned the title of World Champs again. In the end in the Yankee ' s million dollar lineup, it was their nickel-and-dime hitters who did it. And now everybody knows who Bucky is! One for the Book |i| ever ones to do things the easy way IH when difficult or dramatic means are available, the New York Yankees completed their season of miracle comebacks with a record-setting World Series victory over the Los An- geles Dodgers. The Yankees became the first team to stake their opponents to a two-game lead and then sweep four straight games Sports Notes — Pittsburgh guns down Cowboys in Superbowl XIII— Ali loses to Spinks, A night to remember — Jack Nicklas — Sports Illustrate d Sportsman of the year — Lake Placid readies itself for the 1980Olympics — Dorothy Hamill shoots a film in Plattsburg. 22

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Jonestown, situated in the jungles of Guyana on the northern coast of South America, was the scene for an act of self-destruction for some 900 members of the Califor- nia based People ' s Temple. The followers of the Rev. Jim Jones, a once respected Indiana-born humanitarian, first ambushed a party of visiting Americans, killing California Congressman Les Ryan, three newsmen and one defec- tor from their colony. Then, adults and older children picked up paper cups and sipped a concoction of potassium cyanide and potassium chloride. Parents and nurses used syringes to squirt the concoction onto the tongues of babies. Such an act demonstrates the way in which a charismatic leader could bind the minds of his followers with a devilish blend of professed altruism and psychological tyranny. Cult members started as seekers after meaning, direc- tion, comfort, and love. The People ' s Temple had filled their lives with purpose. The gravest threat to such a group is for someone to try to take members out of the family ' . Perhaps Les Ryan ' s mission to Guyana may have been such a threat, the spark that triggered the tragedy. 21

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Deaths Dan Dailey, 62, the lanky loose-jointed movie hoofer. Jonio Kenyatta, 80, flamboyant father of an independent, stable Kenya. Edgar Bergen, 75, created Charlie McCarthy. Golda Meir, 80, Guided Israel for five years. Will Geer, 76, actor from Tobacco Road to The Waltons. Norman Rockwell, 84, sentimentalist in oil. Karl Wallenda, 73, king of the high wire for 57 years . . . suddenly blown off of high wire, to death. Lyman Bostock, 27, the star Angel slugger was shot dead. John D. Rockefeller, 72, a man of good will. Anastas Mikoyan, 82, durable Soviet official. Margaret Mead, 76, Anthropologist. Charles Boyer, 78, Movie actor. I A r J . gal e r0 | Scr ch 23