Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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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

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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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A six fingered philosopher yoda takes on the empire At the end of Star Wars the rebels, the good guys, had Just managed to destroy the Empire ' s Death Star. They were rewarding their two new heros, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, with some nice, shiny medals. Everyone thought that Darth Vadar, the bad guy, had been finished off for good, but apparently he had succeeded in sneaking out of the Death Star through the back hatch. As The Empire Strikes Back opened, Darth Vadar was back on the screen, alive and well and carrying out his evil acts. In Star Wars, everyone thought Vadar had been defeated and there was a triumph of good over evil with the help of John William ' s rousing victory music. With Vadar dominating, The Empire Strikes Back ended on a less satisfying note. No one likes to see the bad guy win. and now not so hard rock To some faithful rock ' n ' roll fans, Bruce Springsteen was one of the best musicians around. His concert in Boston lasted a total of four hours and twenty minutes and the audience still wanted to hear more. Bruce Springsteen ' s moderately hard rock was continually played to sold out audiences. He played with a group called the E Street Band, from Asbury Park, New York. Their nearly flawless performances and the fact that they had all played together for quite some time were just two reasons for their incredible success in the music world. Bruce Springsteen A street scene in southern Italy earthquake in Italy In October a terrible earthquake in southern Italy devastated the land for miles. Entire towns were completely destroyed in the catastrophe. Thousands of families were left with nowhere to go after their homes had been wrecked. Over two thousand people were found dead beneath the rubble of buildings. Amidst the destruction there were some miracles, such as the case of an old man who had been buried under rocks, yet managed to stay alive for almost a week. Money, food, and clothing were sent from all over the world, but no amount of material aid could lessen the tragedy. 20 images