Robbinsdale High School - Robin Yearbook (Robbinsdale, MN)

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Vice-President and Mrs. Nixon receive confetti shower during Minneapolis tour. Minneapolis Star Photos This was a year of discoveries, problems, and progress. It was also the year of the presidential election and the campaigners adopted modern methods of barnstorming. The flick of a switch and the twist of a dial brought the chicken-salad circuit into every living room via the Nixon-Kennedy television debates. Americans watched and listened to the closest two-man race since 1884 and earnestly prayed that the man who replaced Dwight D. Eisenhower would be the right man to let freedom continue to ring—in the sweet land of liberty, the United States of America. 8 Ike dedicates Red Wing bridge. Voters pack RHS polls. Council backs bond issue.

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Satellite, now orbiting the earth, receives final adjustment atop Vanguard rocket. Polaris missile is fired from nuclear submarine, USS George Washington. Wide World. v yV£ f

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President-elect, John F. Kennedy addresses democrats at Auditorium Bean Feed.” Minneapolis Star Photo Robbinsdale students voted to retain a side aspect of their legacy—fun—and fun meant having a joint” in 1961 as energies zoomed in all directions. Boys achieved a sheik look” with narrow ties, snazzy vests, tailored trousers, and pointed shoes and hustled” the girls with a chic look,” half-glamour with elaborate hairdressing and half-casual with knee-tickling skirts and corduroy shoes. They rodded around” in compact cars and pin-striped custom jobs, consumed pizzas and cokes, rocked and rolled, and vigorously accepted the premiums of the legacy of American youth. Economy cars arc compact. Boys admire the clothes fads. Youth Center is favored spot. 9