Princeton University - Bric A Brac Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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April 1974 April 1974 August 1974 Hank Aaron ' s 715th homerun The Patricia Hearst kidnapping Nixon ' s farewell to the White House sound of voices and then the cracks of rifles firing: My God! My God! They ' re killing us. — The large fiery glow was again split into fragments which scattered into the night . . . And so, Abraham held the knife at Isaac ' s throat as the decade began. 1973 brought peace, though it was not necessarily peace with honor, when formal U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was ended by the Paris treaty. The war was won in the end, and Saigon became Ho Chi Minh City. Monuments to the new regime flourished on the land and countless more floated on the seas.

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■ Joyous return of our POW ' s outlines of our faces. We were betrayed. Through the fifties and into the sixties, there was a sense of betrayal in America. Our world view placed us against them since they had betrayed us. We fought them in Korea and had to fight them in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. After a while, we could not determine just who they were. It was not they who had betrayed us, it was our own leaders. In the distance we saw the burning of torches. Fireballs moved through the twilight and came together to form a large fiery glow. The cool wind carried the

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Antibusing violence in Boston I am not a crook, he said, but he was forced to resign anyway. Poor Nixon Quixote flashed a V sign before boarding his whirling stallion and then flew away, leaving behind Watergate and an indelible mark on American politics. The Chinese, at least, would still have tea with him. The world was moving with great speed and we began to feel how fast it was moving. The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Patty Hearst and she adopted them. Turkey invaded Cyprus. Eleven were killed and 75 injured at the main terminal of LaGuardia