Oakville Senior High School - Tiger Paw Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Showing pride in 'lhe stars and stripes, a U,S. soldier holds The flag high over The compound in Beirut. Hand calmly waving io the crowd, Sovi- el Premiere Yuri Andropov's death was mourned by many. li W ii X i w Q X l Pulling their heads logelher, Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson cap- Tured audiences wilh Their song and video for Say, Say, Say. Closing -

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4984 RevisiTed 4984 sTorTed wiTh o bong! As Americo recovered from The shock of The OcTober 23 bomb- ing in BeiruT, Lebdnon, The LLS. Army invdded The islond of Gren- odd. However, The U.S. wos noT dlone in surprising The world wiTh dcTs of wor. When The SovieT Union shoT down Koreon Air Lines FlighT OO7, The world wenT inTo o frenzy. AT home, Americd enjoyed on improved economy, someThing Ronold Reogon will undoubfedly sTress GS he Tries for re-elecTion To The presidency. WolTer lvlondole, Gory HorT, ond Jesse Jockson hove dlso onnounced Their condi- ddcy. The elecTions will Toke o book sedT GS Americdns enjoy The ex- ciTemenT of The Summer Olym- pics in Los Angeles. WiTh luck, Americd will hove performonces rivoling ScoTT i-lomilTon's ond The lvlohre broThers' in The WinTer Olympics. 4984 brings To mind The dssossi- noTion of John F. Kennedy TwenTy yedrs ogo, os well os The news of The deoTh of SovieT Premier Yuri Andropov. Like JFK, Andropov's deoTh wos mourned by The whole 458 Closing world. CelebroTing The onniversdry of Their orrivol from Englond were The BedTles, who orrived in The U.S. TwenTy yedrs ogo To find d noTion crdzed wiTh BeoTlemdnio. ln 4964 iT wos John, Poul, George, ond Ringo, buT in 4984 iT wos lvlichdel. lvlichoel Jockson gripped The noTion This yeor wiTh his smosh olbum 'TThriller. Music videos were hoT buT so were The movies Terms of En- dedrmenT, Risky Business, ond FooTloose. The summer hiT, Fldsh- donce even sTorTed iTs own line of fdshion consisTing of loose swedTshirTs ThoT were Torn before you boughT Them. HoT on The besT-selling book lisT wos George Orwell's clossic nov- el, 4984. The book hos goined The oTTenTion of mdny due To iTs wornings for The fuTure of mon- kind. From books To The BedTles, dedThs To onniversories, ond in- vdsions of isldnds To rioTs for dolls, 4984 wos indeed o yeor To re- member. lvldybe in TwenTy yedrs, we'll look bdck oT 4984 ond, in- sTeod of BeoTlemonio, we'll re- member lvlichdelmonid.

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LeT me show you FroThy eloquence neiTher convinces nor soTlsifies me. l om from Missouri. You hove goT To show me. Willidm Vqndiver. The good congressmdn probqbly hod no ideo whoT he wos geTTing us inTo when he uTTered Those im- morTol words neorly 'IOO yeqrs ogo. Missouri hos since been lo- beled The Show Me SToTe. IT moy hove Token o cenTury, buT Missourions ore fighTing bqck, Tdking The iniTioTive, ond mosT of dll showing, insTeqd of being shown. When on unheord of, frosTbiT- Ten Town, somewhere in The province of Soskqfchewqn, be- come inTeresTed in our hockey Teom locol invesTor l-lorry OrnesT foughT bock. ln The end, iT wos SoskoToon singing The Blues. Horry O Then proceeded To purchqse The Checkerdome, formerly The Areno, ond renqmed iT, whqT else, The Areno. WhqT's in sTore beTond 84? Who knows, moybe pro boskeTbdll. Sur Willioms, The young couro- geous ST. Louison, who risked his sqfeTy To old o womon in peril, wos feoTured on The nqTionqlly TelecqsTed l'Reql People leqv- ing q good feeling omong Mis- sourions ond Americons os well. Becquse neighborhood woTch- es ond concerned ciTizens like Sur, ciTy ond counTy crime figures dropped To The IowesT level in 47 yeors, relinquishing ST. Louis of The dubious TiTle of Murder CopiTql, 160 - Closing U.S.A. WiTh dll The cduse for celebrq- Tion, iT wos no smoll wonder why Anheuser-Busch hod o record- breqking yedr. STqTisTics showed ThoT one-Third of every beer sipped, slugged, or chugged wos monufocTured by Anheuser- Busch. Tqke ThoT MeisTer Broul BuT oil wos noT joyous Cprobobly onoTher focTor in increose A-B sqlesj. Dioxin conTinued To con- TqminoTe Missouri's londs ond sTreoms, Sorkis J. Webbe wos in- volved in on incidenT morring his nome ond TrusTworThiness, meon- while Auggie Busch Jr. wos geT- Ting in involved in occidenTs, dl- Though mosT of The Time he forgoT whqT hoppened, Tried To forgeT whoT hoppened, or ThoughT iT would be beTTer if The whole Thing wos jusT forgoTTen. BuT perhqps, The mosT qTTen- Tion geTTing evenT surrounding ST. Louis wos The Miss Universe Pog- eqni. Heovenly bodies Through- ouT The world Troveled here in hopes of being given The disTinc- Tion of Miss Universe, All eyes were focused on ST. Louis, ond os is expecTed, we showed The world The bequTy, innovoiion, ond hisToricol significonce, ond closs ThoT is disTincTiveIy ours. LeT us rephrose ThoT fomous quoTe. FroThy eloquence neiTher convinces nor soTisfies me. I om from Missouri. LeT me show you. Missourions 4983-841.