Cathedral High School - Pantherpix Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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13 Watergate Committee: ‘‘Uncov- ering the Cover-up” 14 Peter Falk: TV’s unsophisticated sleuth 15 Secretariat; “Super Horse” 16 Hen- ry Kissinger: foreign affairs advisor 17 Wheat shortage 18 Agnew’s res- ignation: first in a long line 19 Mar- tha Mitchell: the mouth that roared 20 Nixon: landslide victory 21 Jack Anderson: scathing reporter 22 Highest average 23 Pippen: A razz- matazz musical hit. choose to remain part of the United Kingdom, while Catholics boycott this vote. The US supplies air support Ay. wholesale price per bushel ‘xports in millions of bushels as heavy fighting erupts in Cambodia. President Nixon wins re-election in a landslide victory; he carries 49 of the 50 states. Wage and price controls are removed in January. For- mer presidents Truman and Johnson die. The Senate Wat- ergate Committee is estab- lished in February. Administra- tion members Haldeman, Er- lichman, Kleindeinst, and Dean resign, and the Senate Select Committee on Presiden- tial Campaign Activities con- venes under Senator Sam Er- vin. Members of the American Indian Movement seize the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The soccer squad wins State and Western Mass titles. Sr. Rose Carmel wins the Na- tional Teachers’ Award. Coach Al Cece leaves CHS; John Mich- alak becomes head football coach in May. 15

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14 1 Mexican drug raid 2 Mark Spitz: record-hold- ing medalist 3 1972 Summer Games in Munich 4 Apollo 17: the last planned moon launch 5 Nixon and Tanaka 6 Captain Spotless and Kid Cleanup: environmental awareness 7 POW's: a long awaited return 8 George Wallace: a campaign ended 9 MASH: TV’s adaptation of a hit movie 10 Charlie Chaplin: return from exile 11 Ryan O’- Neal and Tatum in Paper Moon 12 Sensational- ist Alice Cooper. The Vietnam conflict draws to a close after a period of stepped-up military activity. Although Henry Kissinger proclaims ‘‘peace at hand’’ in October, full-scale bombing of North Vietnam resumed in December. Howev- er, secret peace talks in Paris are resumed by Kissinger and N. Vietnam’s LeDuc Tho, anda cease-fire agreement is signed in January. The US and Russia conclude important agreements. A three-year trade pact is signed in October, and Brezhnev and Nixon design agreement to avert nuclear war after talks in June. Arab terrorists break into Israeli quarters at the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany, eleven are killed. North Ireland Protestants

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16 President Nixon orders mandatory fuel allo- cations to avert energy crisis, but oil-pro- ducing Arab countries join in an embargo on petroleum exports. Russian author Alek- sandr Solzhenitzyn publishes The Gulag Archipelago concerning prison camps in Russia during the time of Stalin: he is ex- iled. French president George Pompidou dies in April. Spiro Agnew is first to resign; Gerald Ford is sworn in to replace him two months later. Skylab II astro- nauts return from a record 59- day stay in space. Interest in ex- orcism greatly increases as a result of The Exorcist, a novel by William Blatty. Patricia Hearst, 1 Billy Jean and Bobby: a battle of the sexes 2 Attack on presidential palace: Al- lende killed 3Terrorists in the forefront 4 Gas: expensive and scarce 5 Skylab 6 Fashions: sparkle shirts 7 Two extremes of the sporting world 8 Kissinger and Brezhnev 9 Israel and Syria: a fight for land 10 Hunger: an all too real threat 11 Nixon with Wright, Ervin and Baker 12 Mother seeking food in the Sub-Sahara region. daughter of the wealthy Ran- dolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Streaking becomes popular on college campuses in March. Former Administra- tion members Haldeman, Ehr- lichman, and Mitchell are in- dicted in the Watergate trials. Hank Aaron hits his 714th home run, tying Babe Ruth’s record. Sr. Alice Kenney and Sr. Patricia Feeley become Principal and Vice-Principal