Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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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

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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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F kennedy bid ends in disaster If there was one line to sum up the politics of the year, it might be: I never dreamed it would turn out the way it did.” Senator Edward M. Kennedy said he had known things looked bad for him since December of 1979 but plowed ahead anyway. He fought Carter, the defeat in Iowa, the closer defeat in the Maine caucuses, and the defeat in New Hampshire. Things seemed a little better back in Massachusetts where Kennedy was able to defeat Carter by 65% to 29% and continued to whip him in five out of eight primaries in June. Kennedy ' s feeling in December had been right and he did lose the The end for Ted and Joan nomination. The campaign had kept the Kennedy marriage together, but after it was over, the couple, after 22 years together, broke up. The couple had been unhappy for years, and in January their plans for a divorce were finally announced. A recipe became a legend Congressman Drinan resigns Polish workers rallied around the charismatic Lech Walesa poland: a lesson in courage Unhappy with their working conditions, rebellious Polish workers laid down their tools and began walkouts that threatened a total collapse of a failing industrial system. Workers ' leader Lech Walesa received help from Pope John II and eventually signed a document obliging the Communist party to legalize independent unions and the right to strike in Poland. The government gave in to his demands, an act unprecedented in Eastern bloc countries. The resultant peace was shaky with fears that the Soviet Union might still send troops into Poland, but it was a good start towards more freedom for the workers. images 2i