King High School - Clarion Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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Assassination Attempts Shock World by Trey Yet again, television screens burned with the sickening imagery of assas- sination. — Peter Goldman. Newsweek. March 30. 1981: A smiling Ronald Reagan emerged from the VIP entrance to the Washington Hilton Hotel, where he had just given a speech in front of 3.500 AFL-CIO union delegates, into a misty rain. As he walked to his nearby limousine. Reagan waved to a small crowd of reporters and onlookers gathered at the curb. On the edge of the crowd, unnoticed. John Hinckley whipped out a Satur- day night special, took careful aim. and opened fire on the president. Within two seconds. Hinckley fired six shots, emptying his gun. Four bullets found targets. One pierced Reagan's body, traveled several inches down his side, bounced off a rib. punctured his left lung, and came to rest three inches from his heart. Head of White House Secret Service. Jerry Parr, reached forward, grabbed, and slammed the stunned and wounded president onto the floor of his waiting limousine. Reagan’s limousine screeched away to George Washington Uni- versity Hospital leaving three bodies lying on the ground. Press secretary James Brady was face down, blood trickling from his head into a steel grating. Policeman Thomas Dclahanty lay on the ground moaning in agony, a bullet in his neck. Secret Service agent Timmolhy McCarthy lay silent, a limp bundle on the pavement. Hinckley was tackled by a burly union representative. Alfred Antonucci. before being burned under police, hotel security guards, and Secret Service men. Several minutes of struggling ensued. Finally, the officers managed to handcuff Hinckley, who was whisked off to police headquarters. Twelve blocks away, the presidential limousine screamed into the emergen- cy entrance of George Washington University Hospital. Reagan got out. and walked fifteen yards to the emergency room, two Secret Service agents hovering close by. He then staggered and was grabbed by the agents who carried him — faint but still conscious — to the code room” where the worst McDuffie emergency cases arc treated. Another ambulance wailed up to the emergency room and Brady was wheeled into the room next to Reagan. A few seconds later, a third ambulance pulled up with McCarthy, who had stepped into the line of fire, perhaps saving Reagan's life. Dclahanty was taken to the hospital’s critical-care tower. May 13, 1981: Again a cheering crowd, a smiling leader, a hand thrust out of the throng, holding a gun. It has become a dark and dreadful ritual of modern times. A cheer went up from the 10.000 pilgrims and tourists gathered outside the Vatican. The open “Popemobilc” slowly circled through them, shouts of “Viva il Papa! following it. John Paul kissed a curly headed child and stretched out his hand to a woman in white. Four shots rang out. John Paul sank to the floor of the jeep, wounded in the lower abdomen, the right forearm, and the index finger of his left hand. Guards formed a shield around the Popemobilc and meed along with it as it picked up speed, heading toward the Pope's private ambulance which was standing by as always. John Paul was quickly lifted inside. Ten minutes after he was shot, the Pontiff was whisked off to Rome's best equipped and most modem hospital, Policlinico Genelli. During the fifteen minute trip. John Paul never lost consciousness although obviously in great pain. He later told aides that he had forgiven his assailant within minutes of the shooting. In St. Peter's Square, confusion reigned. The Pope's assailant. Mehmct Ali Agca. tried to flee. Before he got far, bystanders grabbed him and held him until police took over. The officers marched Agca off to the Questura, central headquarters for Rome's police, for questioning. The pilgrims and tourists in the square milled about stunned, many of them weeping. Finally, a voice broken with emotion announced over the public address system. The Holy Father has been wounded. Please pray for him. Innovation. That seems to have the key word in the music industry as the recession made its impact on record sales. In the United States record companies only took chances with already established groups, thus we saw few new bands. But the record buyers wanted new sounds and turned to the United Kingdom for innovation. The new sound many people were looking for came in the post-punk invasion from the U.K.. similar to the invasion of the early 60's. Groups such as Adam and the Ants (Kings of the Wild Frontier), U-2 (Boy and October) and Ultravox (Vienna)answered the cry fora new. original style of music. Still, there were many fans satisfied with already established super- groups and their already popular sound. The Rolling Stones put out a blockbuster concert tour promoting their equally successful album. Tatto You. The J. Gcils Band released their most successful album to date. Freeze Frame, which was highlighted the hit song. Centerfold . Heavy Metal remained strong with Black Sabbath (The Mob Rules), ZZ Top (El Loco) and AC DC (For Those About to Rock) all performing before sold out stadiums for their popular albums. In other music miscellany the Police pulled off another hit album and concert tour. Rhythm and blues and soul took to the radio in a new form — rapping. Such groups as the Sugar Hill Gang ( Rappers' Delight ) capitalized on record sales. It was a big year for all kinds of music, the recession was a blessing in disguise for only the best music was offered to the public. • YOYGCR (IT SATURI) by Staroo KdwuUi Five years ago. the first of the Voyager spacecrafts was launched from Earth on a mission to explore the mysteries of the solar system, it was followed by Voyager 2 less than a month later. Since then, they have made many fascinating discoveries. For instance, in March. 1979. they discovered that Jupiter has a complex, storm-tossed atmosphere and a thin ring around it. In November. 1980. Voyager I came close enough to Saturn to begin revealing unexpected information about its ring structure and moons. Photographs of Saturn's rings revealed new information to scientists back on Earth. For example, one picture confirmed sightings of a ring close to the surface of the planet. Another picture revealed that the Cassini Division, originally thought to be a clear zone between two outer rings, actually contains at least three dozen ringlets. The satellite also discovered curious spokes that radiate along the third major ring from the surface. Project scientists cannot yet explain these spokes; one theory is that they may be fine particles lifted out of the ring plane by electrostatic forces. Voyager I also made many discoveries about Saturn's moons. It is now believed that Satum has 16 moons. Voyager 1 discovered two small shepherd moons that hold one of Saturn’s thin outer rings together. A photograph of another moon. Mimas, showed a large crater probably created by a collision that nearly blew it apart. Another moon. Iapetus, has one hemisphere that is five times brighter than the other. The cause for this phenomenon is still unknown. Although these discoveries by Voyager 1 have raised many puzzling questions about Satum, they have also presented many new facts. The Voyager project is just the first step in man’s exploration of space. Perhaps in the future these questions will be answered when the final step of manned space exploration is taken. Magazine 283

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Advertising From the computerized efficiency of nationwide department stores to the per- sonalized service of the corner drugstore, the businesses in our community extend more influence over our daily lives than we might imagine; they have a direct rela- tionship with the contents of much of our puzzle. The types of jobs we hold, where we work, shop, eat, and bank, and what we do for entertainment arc greatly affected by our business community. Likewise, our student body plays an important role in the business community. Without our support and patronage, many area businesses could not succeed and others would lack a sufficient number of em- ployees. Advertising is the voice of the business world. It provides us with the answers to how? what? why? where? and when? The mass marketing tactics now' utilized by the vast majority of businesses conquer the pitfalls of word of mouth advertising and allow a business to reach more peo- ple directly than ever before. Advertising 285