Gwinn High School - Gwinner Yearbook (Gwinn, MI)

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Presidential Candidates Sales pitch: Ready, on Day One, to be a Great President. Trans- lation: Four more years. Media character rap: Wimp Most gutsy stand broke tie in favor of '85 social-security freeze. Least gutsy stand: wooed religious right by declaring himself ‘born again. Sales pitch: a record, not a resume. Translation: I'm not George Bush. Media character rap: Captain Queeg Most gutsy stand: ’82 tax-hike, failed, ’85 attempt to freeze budget, including social- security. Least gutsy stand: initial straddle on INF treaty. Sales pitch: This is not a campaign, it’s a cause. Translation: I’m Reagan’s real son. Media character rap: Closed-minded, belief in own Polyanna rhetoric Most gutsy stand: talks up minorities in GOP primaries. Least gutsy stand: attempt to scare elderly on social security. PAT ROBERTSON Sales pitch: Restore America’s greatness through moral strength. Translation: Are you running with me, Jesus? Media character rap: Facts be damned Most gutsy stand: calls for ban on tobacco, fee on alcohol consumer. Least gutsy stand: conversion to textile pro- tectionism. Republicans 14

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Despite the personal if light hearted support of David Letterman, luge is still not a huge sport in the U S. For some reason, Americans have not clamored to clamber aboard a tiny sled for an 80 m.p.h. ride on a frozen chute designed to rattle you off. It’s like flying down some icy road with hairy turns in a car with no brakes, says Bonny Warner. She loves it. Disappointed when a crash dropped her to 15th at Sarajevo, Warner, 25, of Mount Baldly, California, last year finished fifth with the world champions. Four East Germans and a Soviet are now her competition. Expecting a good break for a change, Warner boasts brightly, Luge and I were made for each other. Suzy Semanick and Scott Gregory have only been skating together for 3 years. Gregory had been in the 1984 Olympics with Elisa Spitz but after a 10th place finish, she retired. Semanick, 20, of Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, and Gregory. 28. of Skanetales, New York, have been the U.S.’s top couple for the past year. However, in November at a competition, Gregory ruptured a disk in his back. Pain is not a problem but he has lost strength in his left leg. They are working their way around it as much as possible through their free dance routine and still hope for a bronze. Joe Holland could never have imagined himself as number 1 of the U.S. Nordic combined team — at least not the way he got it. First, Kerry Lynch, America’s best hope for a gold medal was disqualified for blood doping, which means taking an oxygen- boosting transfusion of blood before a race. This act is wide-spread and undetectable but when Lynch was questioned, he was honest and said yes, he had tried it once. The new number 1 crashed and broke a hip leaving Holland, Norwicky, Vermont, number 1. 13

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Sales pitch The Massachusetts Miracle. Translation: There's nothing obviously wrong with me. Media character rap Pious technocrat, Carter II Most gutsy stand: willing to criticize U S. allies on rights abuses. Least gutsy stand: bases deficit-reduction plan on better tax collection. Sales pitch It's your fight, too. Translation: It's not your fault. Media character rap Will say almost anything to be president Most gutsy stand: Didn't cave in completely to notch babies. Least gutsy stand Pandered to farmers with production-quota bill, elderly on social- security, energy states with oil-import fee. ALBERT GORE Sales pitch: The only Democrat who can win. Trans- lation: JFK had no message either. Media character rap: Prematurely grave, hasn’t suffered enough. Most gutsy stand: Stood up to medical lobbies on generic drugs. Least gutsy stand: Now says he's for aircraft carriers he opposed. GARY HART Sales pitch: Let the people decide. Translation: Womanizing doesn’t matter. Media character rap: How much time do you have? Most gutsy stand: Specific new tax-filled budget plan. Least gutsy stand: Never really addressed Donna Rice failings. JESSE JACKSON Sales pitch: If I can win, America can win. Translation: Don’t reject me just because I’m black. Media character rap: All talk, no followthrough Most gutsy stand: March- es with gay-and-lesbian rights activists. Least gutsy stand: Vague on whether welfare mother should work. PAUL SIMON Sales pitch: A government that cares. Translation: There’s nothing wrong with vintage liberalism. Media character rap: Fuddy-duddy, too nice Most gutsy stand: Voted against all Reagan tax cuts. Least gutsy stand: Supports real-estate tax sheltered. Democrats