Carroll High School - Anchor Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 268-Closing U.S. military forces enter Cambodia. Students protest. Riots erupt on college campuses, and four students at Kent State University in Ohio killed by National Guardsmen. Hurricane Celia strikes Corpus Christi on August 3. Miraculously, only 11 people die, but 466 are injured and insured property losses total more than S500 million. 18-year-olds receive right to vote in federal elections. South Vietnam troops, backed by Americans, invade Southern Laos. LBJ Library Complex on campus of University of Texas dedicated at cost of 318.6 million. U.S. Post Office replaced by semi-independent U.S. Postal Service. President Nixon visits Communist China. Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace shot and paralyzed while campaigning in Maryland for Democratic presidential nomination. President Nixon becomes first U.S. president to visit Moscow. Watergate scandal begins when unauthorized persons are caught in Democratic National Headquarters in Washington. Arab terrorists kill 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich, Germany. President Nixon defeats Democrat George McGovern by an overwhelming majority. Channel 16, public sponsored station, begins broadcasting in Corpus Christi. Dallas Cowboys win Superbowl. Cost of living jumps after U.S. sells wheat and other grains to Soviet Union. Watergate scandal spreads. Lyndon B. Johnson dies at ranch in Johnson City. U.S. troops withdrawn from South Vietnam, and North Vietnam and Viet Cong release prisoners. Many men still MlAs CMissing in Actionj. U.S. Skylab 2 takes longest manned space flight, 59 days. Spiro T. Agnew resigns vice presidency, pleading no contest to charges of tax evasion. Texas makes 18-year-olds instant adults. Previously Baptist University of Corpus Christi becomes state-supported, upper level Texas A8zI - CC. Energy crisis follows Arab oil boycott. Small cars grow popular and alternate energy sources sought as oil prices skyrocket. Alaskan pipeline construction permitted after environmental lawsuits. Hank Aaron of Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth's home run record with his 715th homer. Soviet Union deports writer Alexander Solzhenitsen after his book Gulag Archipelago published criticizing Soviet penal system. Watergate hearings bring resignation of Richard Nixon as president of United States. Gerald Ford, appointed vice president earlier under 25th Amendment, sworn in as president. President Ford grants full pardon to Richard Nixon for any acts he may have committed as president. Court-ordered busing for school integration brings violence and school boycott in Boston, Mass. sw...:'f': 1 . . 1-' a a.: MSM , .H , .. . A ., ...Mp ,M , . 2 m . . - - -- at .,,, i Q - . A 5. 2--1. I . ' 1

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