Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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ABOVE—Legislation that eventually led to the adoption of the 26th amendment pushed by our own Senator Birch Bayh enables eighteen- year-old Tricia Pierce to register to vote. LEFT— Alas! our poor almighty dollar. What are we to do with it? In mid August a ten percent foreign import surcharge and a three-month wage-price freeze was announced. All this to no avail for helping the dollar. Finally, as a result of a trade deficit for the first time since 1884, President Nixon, voted Man of the Year by Time Magazine, was forced to revalue the dollar downward. RIGHT—Campaigning for the democratic gubernatorial nomination for the 1972 elections, ex-governor of Indiana, Mat¬ thew Welsh had an informal chat with Crown Point High School students, discussing his plans for the state.

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Grins on faces human or pumpkin orange Friends ' conversation over a marshmallow roast Trees shudder in the cold letting fall their dead leaves to be shuffled upon the walk This is how the autumn ends not with a bang but a whimper 15

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1971 AND 1972 THE YEARS IN REVIEW KIDS GET THE VOTE. . .25 million new 18-year-old voters . . . ratification of the 26th amendment. . .projected percentage vote: 42.9 % . .. INDIA-EAST PAKISTAN WAR. . . 14 days duration. . . creation of Bangladesh... 139th independent nation of the world . . .socialist-style democracy. . . RED CHINA ADMITTED TO UNITED NATIONS. . .Taiwan booted out. . .during circus performance . . .NIXON’S TRIP TO CHINA. . .historic. . . reestablishment of cordial relations. . .two sickly pandas for the Washington zoo. .. HOWARD HUGHES’ seclusion shattered by Clifford Irving ' s farce. . .ACADEMY AWARDS . . . Jane Fonda best Actress for Klute . . . French Connection Best Picture. . .STEP-UP OF VIET-NAM WAR. . .mining of Haiphong Harbor. . .tirades from Peking and Moscow. . .and on Capitol Hill. . .WALLACE. . . attempted assassination. . .in Laurel, Maryland. . .MAY 22. . . discussion between Nixon and Brezhnev at Kremlin. .. CONCLUSION. . .was this year really any different? If it ' s Thursday, this must be China. Presi¬ dent Nixon, Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai, and Pat Nixon feed goldfish in a park at Hangchow.