Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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Dallas anti hero J.R. j.r. probably deserved it Not since the Battle of Concord has a shot been heard round the world like this. Dallas fans were agog over who had ambushed the mean J.R. Ewing. The mystery was the reason for teeshirts, bumper stickers, buttons, and bets. Viewers had to wait eight months to find out who had pulled the trigger. In the end, fans found out that J.R. ' s sister in law had fired the shot. Her reason? J.R. had refused to marry her and had threatened to charge her with prostitution if she tried to blackmail him. To keep the identity of the person who had done the shooting a secret, the producers had filmed different versions of the attack, and everyone wondered, Who shot J.R.? 18 images americana: death of a symbol One of Mae West ' s famous comments was that she was what she was. In her Hollywood apartment, time seemed to have stopped for her sometime in the tQBO ' s. Life outside whirred by in a blur. There were wars and armistices, good years and bad years. Inside, however, things remained the same: ' 30s style furniture, piano and rugs. Mae followed a rigid routine in exercise and health food and never allowed disturbing thoughts from the outside world to intrude upon her own world. She believed that she had stopped aging fifty years ago. Even up until 1978, she sashayed onto the screen in movies like Myra Breckenridge and Sextette Both films were memorable sprinklers were not required Shortly after 7:00 on a Friday morning in September smoke began to drift through the casino on the first floor of the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Within minutes the world ' s largest gambling hall was engulfed in flames. The fire raced through the entire ground floor of the 2,076 room hotel, destroying two cavernous, 1,000 seat showrooms, an arcade of 40 shops and restaurants. Panicked guests searched frantically for exits. Some managed to make their way to the stairwells, only to discover thick smoke or that the exit doors at the bottom of the stairwells were locked for security reasons. In all, 83 people were killed and 334 were injured in the blaze. Mae West disasters; and Mae could not understand why. I look the way I did when I was 22, she said, and my figure is exactly ; the same it was in the ' 30s. In a way she was right. The world will remember as she remembered herself, glamorous and sexy. A not so grand hotel

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the peasants share the shortage When Proposition 2 2 was first introduced to the voters of Massachusetts, there were mixed reactions. Public employees protested and began an anti Proposition 2 V 2 campaign. Taxpayers, especially in highly taxed cities, were overwhelmingly in favor of the tax cutting bill. It was passed by a whopping 2 to 1 margin. Once 2 2 went into effect, however, many people began to feel the brunt of the cuts. The results were more than some voters had expected. Many of them had not thought about where the tax cuts would come from. School systems were perhaps hit the hardest of ail. another dreamer dest royed For days, in newspapers, magazines and special television broadcasts, the death of a popular entertainer took precedence over wars, foreign affairs, and economic crises. John Lennon, at the age of 40, was shot four times while entering his apartment building. Several hours before his death Lennon autographed a copy of his new album for the man who shot him. For most Beatles fans, John Lennon had seemed to be an immortal symbol. Flis music had expressed their hopes for world peace and love. Flis sudden death disrupted their And now disaster Lennon and Yoko hopes and idealism as they became aware of the fact that time would continue though their idol had died. Tattered flags in Pennsylvania america comes home to the hostages On January 20, 1981, the Iranian hostages were released from captivity. After their return they described their captivity. They had been lectured, insulted, manipulated, bound in chairs at times, terrorized with midnight raids, and subjected to Russian roulette. For fourteen and a half months, the U.S. had been unable to arrange their release. In the final bargain with the Iranians, the United States delivered no more than those Iranian assets that had originally been frosen. Even though the hostages had been released, they still had a long way to go. They had to learn to live a normal life again. images V

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making it tough on careless cooks Everyone in America knows it takes a tough man to make a tender bird. Frank Perdue has given Americans the tender bird, but what happens when careless cooks fail to keep an eye of their roasting chickens? Relentlessly persuing the perfect fowl, Frank Perdue came to the rescue. The answer? The pop up timer, of course. Now no one can blame Frank when they ruin their chicken. The problem is that you have to keep checking to be right there when the timer pops up so you can take the bird out of the oven. After Frank went to all that trouble, it would be inconsiderate to overcook a tender chicken. the cup stays in newport In August, the American sailing boat Freedom was chosen over two other U.S. entries to defend the America ' s Cup. The Freedom , with an inventory of 75 sails, required meticulous preparation. Under the supervision of Skipper Dennis Conner, 37, a total of 100 crewmen and onshore support personnel and $2.5 million were needed to get the boat ready. Conner had been methodically racing the Freedom for over a year. The challenging boat was the Australia , a boat which had triumphed over her own challengers but lost to the Freedom . The America ' s Cup remained in the trophy case at the New York Yacht Club. Freedom in full sail a good man finishes last Jimmy Carter won the 1976 Presidential election by campaigning deliberately as an outsider. He remained an outsider throughout his term. Carter was never really a leader in the Democratic party. As President, he owed little o r nothing to the party and practiced a cool neglect of it. Because of his relationship with the party, his overwhelming defeat was not j as disasterous as it could have been for the Democrats. After many years running Congress, the Democrats needed some new ideas and a strong leader to stay in power. Many voters were tired of the inflation and the way the country was being run. Carter did not offer strong Jimmy Carter in happier times leadership and was unable to come through with a victory. Reagan ' s victory awakened the Democrats to the fact that people wanted new solutions to some old problems. look muffy a book for us The Official Preppy Handbook became number one on the trade paperback list. The hot new guide to the mores and mannerism of prep school graduates was filled with comic dos and don ' ts for preppy dressers. The idea of putting all this information together was that of Brown University graduate Jonathan Roberts, age 26, an author of the handbook. The authors were criticized by anti preppies, but denied trying to separate themselves as being an elite group. They stated that the whole point of their handbook was to democratize preppy. They claimed they were trying to make everyone a part of the elite so that there would no longer be anyone to snub. images 19