Elon University - Phi Psi Cli Yearbook (Elon, NC)

Page 29 text:

The space program moved ahead. Space walker James van Hoften stands tall on the end of the robot arm of the Space Shuttle Discovery after successfully launching the repaired Syncom satellite in September. MINI-MAGAZINE 25

Page 28 text:

A series of devaslating earthquakes rumbled through Mexico City in September and the death toll was in the thousands. Few in the metropolitan area of 18 million escaped the effects of the first quake, which registered 8.1 on the Richter scale; or the second quake, which measured 7.5. Veteran actor and Hollywood heartthrob Rock Hudson shocked the movie-going public when he announced his affliction with AIDS. Hudson ' s battle with the disease made international headlines and encouraged thousands of other AIDS sufferers to come o ut of the closet. Hudson succumbed to the disease and died late in 1985. 24 MINI-MAGAZINE

Page 30 text:

An entire city block was destroyed in Philadelphia. Police tried to evict members of the radical group MOVE from their fortified rowhouse by dropping a small bomb on the building. A fire was started by the device and about 60 houses were destroyed. 26 MINI-MAGAZINE