Mount de Sales High School - Salesian Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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ary ALL It was a year of celebration. We celebrated the centennial of the Statue of Liberty with a spec- tacularly American bash. It was a year of celebration for two newly- wed couples. Sarah Ferguson mar- ried Prince Andrew of Great Britain, and Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late President was married in a gala social event in New York City.

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In the field of entertainment, it was a varied and interesting year. Max Headroom, the first non-human talk show host and soft drink per- son, appeared on bill boards around the country, while on the roads be- low those billboards, rear windows were festooned with triangular yel- low signs of all descriptions. Madonna affected a persona strikingly similar to Marilyn Monroe and Tom Cruise was Top Gun in the skies and at the box office. Paul Ho- gan as “Crocodile Dundee”’ taught us how to speak Australian, and Bruce Springsteen proved to be an enduring American artist.

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It was a year of political miracles and political madness. In the Philippines, Corazon Aquino celebrated the first anniver- sary of the return of democracy to her country. It was a year when terrorism continued to threaten the se- curity of the West; it was a year when Terry Waite safely brought hostages home, then himself disappeared; it was a year when the names of Ronald Reagan and Oliver North were first spoken together.