Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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GENTLEMAN AGED FIVE BEFORE THE MIRROR It tells you what you do but never why, Your image in the glass that watches you: | You cannot catch it napping if you try. It can be counted on to laugh or cry, Make faces, dance, do anything you do; ‘Tt you what you do but never why. It i is no use to tell ihe glass alc, tt answers ee as if your wore were it silently jen “y joe sO too.” Lo tells you what you do but never why. the say there i is a mirror in the sky, that looks not only at you but 7 through, ee cannot catch it napping it you ty. 8 then this one will oe you still in view You cannot ae it napping if you try. tells a what do but never why. — - John Wain | You cannot ee cia mirror a you ae Foreword 3

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Looking to the sky became the national ' pastime this year as political questions clouded the horizon. Who would win the 1976 presidential election? What would the new president do about economic problems? And how would he handle the growing problem of dissatisfaction of the American people with their government? With his election, Jimmy Carter became the target for these queries. He answered them by immediately setting several plans into action. Sky-watchers found Carter’s foreign policy to be a very interesting subject, as well as its effect on the Soviet SALT talks and relations with the Mid-East. No less interesting were domestic policies, the stand on amnesty, and federal spending. The nation began literally watching the sky as winter came on with greater fury than had been witnessed in some time. Sub-freezing temperatures and unusual amounts of precipitation increased demand on an already low fuel supply. Shortages arose and debate over the Alaska pipeline continued as the nation shivered under winter’s wrath. As always, however, spring came; the nation thawed, and oil flowed through the pipeline at last. With summer’s approach meteorologists began to check the sky over California in hopes of finding rain clouds to ease drought conditions and observers continued to check the political heavens for indications of what would happen next. Foreword 5