Curry College - Curryer Yearbook (Milton, MA)

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The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco celebrated its 50th birthday. About 250,000 people jammed onto the bridge for an anniversary walk across the span. Another 500,000 packed the bridge entrances but were denied access because the engineers feared the span could not support the weight.

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The Dow Jones industrial stock average dropped 508 points, the largest in history, on Monday, October 19. Some called it a crash, others called it a meltdown and others called it Black Monday. Whatever it was, it stripped $500 billion from the market value of U.S. securities.

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President and Mrs. Reagan greeted Pope Paul II when he arrived in Miami to begin a nine-city tour of the United States. In the six years since Americans first heard of a mysterious immunity-robbing disease from which no one recovers, AIDS has killed nearly 25,000 Americans, millions of dollars have poured into medical research and President Reagan has proclaimed the plague Public Health Enemy No. 1. ■ ' •■■■W ' FOR, THl Station