Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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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

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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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Saturn from Voyager I a spectacular visit to a neighbor The planning and construction of the Voyager I spacecraft began years earlier, but finally the world awakened to a new vision of Saturn. Commanded only by its own computers. Voyager I soared past Titan, one of Saturn ' s moons and apparently the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere. The spacecraft came within 2,500 miles of Titan and gathered more speed under the pull of Saturn ' s gravity. It plunged downward towards the outer edge of Saturn ' s rings, discovering their incredible complexity. The Voyager carried out its maneuvers with astonshing precision and with the help of its instruments and cameras, the world saw a detailed picture of one of the most beautiful places in our solar system. Afterward, the Voyager I ' s path led it out of the solar system towards a distant star that it will never be able to reach. the anderson difference When John Anderson began his independent race for the presidency in April 1980, his campaign was more than a pipe dream. The public opinion polls showed that a lot of people were unhappy with the prospective nominations of Carter and Reagan. They indicated as well that a lot of people were eager for a third choice. Many of the voters who supported Anderson did so as an alternative to either Carter or Reagan. Though Anderson was favored by nearly 25% of the voters, he reached a point where he could rise no higher in the polls unless he seemed to have a chance of winning. Unfortunately, he could not appear to have that chance until his popularity rose. He Timothy Hutton os Conroe a far from ordinary film At the opening of Ordinary People , a soberly paced film, a father and mother were treading carefully around their son, full of false cheer and barely suppressed anxiety. The boy was trying to return to the normal life which had been broken off by the death of his brother in a boating accident. The son felt responsible for the accident and had been placed in a mental hospital. The story was his attempt to return to the life he had before the accident. The film sounded, to many, like another effort to make psychiatry more popular. The power of Ordinary People was in the way it observed behavior with subtle details. John Anderson could not gain more support, and eventually went down in the polls. Though he lost the election, there was no doubt that his campaign had influenced the outcome. 22 images