Robbinsdale High School - Robin Yearbook (Robbinsdale, MN)

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Local attractions offer diversity The fall campaigns evoked surprising repartee between candidates. Congressman A1 Quie challenged Rudy Perpich for the governor's job, but the biggest hullabaloo arose in the senatorial race from angry democrats when millionaire Bob Short snatched the primary election away from endorsed candidate Don Fraser. A well-behaved crowd jammed into the St. Paul Civic Center on Halloween to hear Bob Dylan in his first major appearance in his home state in 13 years. The 18.000 tickets were sold out two hours after going on sale. Exotic European food, royalty in costume, jousting, and mime acts drew area residents to the annual Renaissance Fair. Many RHS students found an exciting opportunity in working as village folk at the fair. The movie Genesis was an illustration of creation shown in the new dome-concept 3M-Omnitheater of the Science Museum of Minnesota. The film afforded breathtaking aerial trips through the Swiss alps, an African valley, the fault line around San Francisco, and the creation of the island of Surtsey. After winning her first big match in the Virginia Slims tournament last year. Tracy Austin, a 15-year old tennis sensation returned to compete in the U.S. Women’s Indoor Tournament held at the Met Center. This page, lop: King Henry of the Renaissance Festival cnioys a feast which he hosts for visitors; left: People and animals line up for tickets to the Dylan concert: bottom: Pigtails flying. Tracy Austin makes a two-arm return. Opposite page, top: Rudy Perpich and A1 Quie debate issues For the governor's race; bottom: The Science Museum creates a new look for downtown St. Paul skyline; bottom right: Close up of Star-ball which can project 10,000 stars unto the dome of the museum. 6. Dotelme Locol

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World m ust make way for new thoughts No new attempt is frivolous if people have discovered something about themselves and are satisfied that they have channeled all their energies and capabilities into it. The world is saddened by a death, but it has learned to adjust to the demands of nature and make way for new thoughts. A crusty conservative named Howard Jarvis led a tax revolt in California where the population voted itself a 57 per cent reduction in the rising tax of their homes. In the worst air disaster in U.S. history, a Pacific Southern Boeing 727 collided head-on with a small plane over a residential area in San Diego killing at least 150 people. In April a “quiet kid named John Travolta became a superstar and raised discomania to a national craze when he strutted his stuff in the blockbuster movie Saturday Night Fever. America’s radio generation mourned the death of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. The wit of his wooden friends — Charlie McCarthy. Mortimer Snerd, and Effie Klinker — died with him. Dateline National 5.

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