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

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RIGHT—Snoopy exhibits a hopeful out¬ look on America. BELOW—The 1 972 summer Olympics left pronounced mem¬ ories of misfortune, tragedy, blunder, conquest, flag-waving, medal-counting, and a circus-tent atmosphere instead of the intended Olympic spirit of peace and brotherhood. Student unrest, Peace movements, Love thy brother, so they say. Nixon returns—landslide 2 Over: ' Nixon 511; McGovern 16. Population explosion stunted. Moon exploration strides Onward With grand finale of Apollo, While people go to bed hungry. Moving toward computerized World. Baseball; Oakland raids Series. Miami Dolphins go undefeated Through Superbowl. Government embezzlement sets Examples. Watergate drowns Republicans’ Good name. Who arrest who—police jailed. Consumer crusaders Rip off the market. Pointless anti-commercial Commercials. New York liberalizes, Abortions mount— Unloved babies everywhere. Clean water—thing of the past. Stockmarket fluctuates with Economic setbacks. Weather rockets food prices. Meat boycott creates new dish, Nixon burger. Dollar shrinks in world wash From 8%, deflation 10%. Indiana Sales Tax doubles, Taxes up—why not Deductions? East coast washed out By flash floods, West coast to fall off In earthshake. Midwest gets both plus. Fisher pawns Spassky, New Chess World Champion. Mark Spitz, American Olympic Superstar, 7 races, 7 gold medal s, 7 world records! 11 Israelis murdered by Arabs, Are the Olympics worth all this? Defense contracts run out, Unemployment up. Social security up to 5.85%, Still a mere drop in the bucket, Of living costs. Money hunger proven in Charity decline. Too expensive to be born, To live, or to die. Draft laid to rest. PEACE January 27,1973. Ouestions for peace: 543 POWs, 1271 MIAs, Rehabilitation? AMERICA—a country involved— LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT! 2

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CONTENTS HAPPENINGS 8 WORKING TOGETHER 36 SHADES OF VICTORY; SHADES OF DEFEAT 92 JUSTUS 124 WHERE TO SAVE IT: WHERE TO SPEND IT 180 INDEX 216 fINT HIGH SCHOOL Pint, Indiana IFTY-SIX CROWN P CROWN PJ VOLUME H

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f ' lf;j Sain POWs munists today LEFT—Nixon’s “new era of peace in the world brought to silence the weapons of an 11 year and one month war on Janu¬ ary 27, 1973 after 45,937 men were killed, 303,622 were wounded, and 140 billion dollars were spent. BELOW—A few weeks after the peace agreement was signed all POWs returned home to thankful family and friends, but, of course, there were those who did not return to their homeland. AMERICA