Logan High School - Amphion Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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NT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURREI ( At The Movies. Steven Spielberg wos the biggest moneymaker of the year with his two movies. E. T., and Poltergeist. E. T. wos o wonderfully touching story about the friendship of on alien stranded on Earth and a ten year old boy. Poltergeist, wos a nightmare dealing with ghosts that invade a house and terrorize o family. Other critically acclaimed movies included. An Officer ond o Gentlemen. a steomy love story. Ghondi. a documentary on the life of the man who willed o nation, India, into being. Pocky 3. the continuing story of Rocky Dolboo. ond Tootsie, the hilarious comedy starring Dustin Hoffman, os an actor who couldn't make it as a man so he dressed up like a woman and became America's hottest actress. • E.T stole the hearts of millions ond grossed more money thon Star Wars Actor Henry Fondo wos one of the many notories who died during the year others include Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev, octress Groce Kelly. Cooch Bear Bryont. ond Singer Karen Carpenter. {M A S H Signs Off) In real time, the Korean conflict wos over in three years,- in CBS's prime time it lasted eleven years. M a s H was the series that began by operating on the wounded American body politics with skill and daring good humor. It was about doctors in Korea, ond it drew from real life and death as faithfully as many documentaries. Larry Gelbert and Gene Reynolds, who developed the show for T.V., talked with dozens of surgeons ond nurses who hod served in Korea.- they even visited a Korean MASH base, for more memories. By the time the series ended, they had spoken to almost every doctor who was in Korea, and at least sixty per cent of the plots dealing with military or medical incidents, had been taken from real life. Now stage Nine of the 20th Century-Fox studios is dork. The backdrop of Khoki-drab Korean hills ond everything that might serve as inventory, booty of momentos have disappeared. In Hawkeye Pierce's Swamp—footlockers. stove, framed pictures and the distillery ore gone. Though M A S H has gone, the memories of Howkeye. B.J.. Hot Lips Hoolohon, Radar, Klinger. Col. Potter, and Father Mulcahy will live on. 8? i % o i I I The octors of M A S H, the longest running sit-com. soid goodbye in o two ond o Ploying video gomes become one of students fovorite posttimes half hour episode. February twenty-eighth. Current Events 25

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JRftENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CU ( Computer Impact ) By itself, the personal computer was o machine with formidable capabilities for tabulating, modeling or recording. Those capabilities could be multiplied almost indefinately by plugging it into o network of other computers. This was generally done by attaching o desk top model to o telephone line. One could then dial on electronic doto base, which not only provided oil manner of information but also collected ond transmitted messages.—electronic moil. Beyond the computer hardware loy the virtually limitless market for software, oil those prerecorded programs that told the willing but mindless computer whot to do. The most visible aspect of the computer revolution, the video gome, was it's least significant. Nonetheless it was o remarkable phenomenon, about 20 corporations sold over $2 billion that year. According to some estimates, more than half of oil the personal computers The Princess Diono holds her son. Prince William of Woles ot Kensington Poloce He is six months old. ( Tylenol Killings ] I 5 £ O I I Terror spread across the notion when seven people in Chicago died from taking cyanide laced Extro-Strength Tylenol. As in o nightmare, the most innocent action—reaching for o painkiller to relieve o headache, something that Americans do millions of times every doy—hod become fraught with menace. By week's end Johnson Johnson, the maker of tylenol. stopped all production in capsule form. They come out with o tamper resistant lid, but cautioned that nothing could be mode tomper-proof. • » Artificial heart recipient Borney Clark, smiles up ot Dr 'fc the surgery ( First Artificial HeorF) Dr. Borney Clork. o retired dentist from Des Moines, Washington, received the first artificial heart in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was so close to death that they hod to move the surgery to ten hours ahead of schedule. After the implant, he mode on impressive recovery. He joked with the nurses, listened to topes of music ond even begon doing light exercises. liom DeVnes leader of the medical team the performed sitting in bed ond swinging his legs. A week after the operation he hod seizures for o 2 Vi hour interval, but the heart kept pumping 90 beats o minute, without a pause. Doctors attributed the seizures to o chemical ond fluid imbalance. because of a minor kidney failure Clork experienced just before surgery. The artificial heart helped them through the time of crisis Dustin Hoffmon felt thot by ploying Tootsie he become o better mon. 24 Current Events

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Prices GAS S.90-Si.20 MOVIE S3.50 RECORDS S7 and up LUNCH TICKETS S.75 CONCERT S8.50 ond TICKETS up LEVI SHRINKS S14.99 NIKES S29.99 SKIING S9.00 BACKPACK Si 7.50 MINIMUM WAGE S3.35 CAN OF POP S.40 CANDY BAR S.35 STUDENTS CHOICE STUDENTS CHOICE STUDENTS CHOICE STUDENTS CHOICE STUDENTS CHOICE STUDENTS CHOICE STUDENTS Mony students like Jeff Bryner and Bonnie Hansen find that their money is spent on such things os Snickers and Tab 26 Poll Getting nominations, counting ballots, and finding out what most of the studentbody likes is whot the poll is oil about. Tootsie, the favorite movie of the studentbody, wos about o man (Dustin Hoffman) who dressed up like o lady to get o job ond fell in love with o woman and the men were in love with him. The favorite song Down Under wos sung by the fovorite group Men At Work from Austrolio. It wos about their country ond how it's known os being down under. M A S H being the fovorite television show for quite o few years come through again, but unfortunately the lost episode wos filmed ond its showing on T.V. brought about o great loss to mony of the studentbody. Bringing M A S H to o close brought about the mony M A S H boshes that were held in practically every town ond city '«