Spruce Creek High School - Flight Yearbook (Port Orange, FL)

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MISCELLANEOUS Gaucho pants with vests, jumpsuits, knee- length skirts all accented the fashion scene for women as well as three-piece vested suits. Leisure suits, Levi's and three-piece suits accompanied the men's style. However, Levi's prevailed. A bottle of soda was 306. A pack of gum was 154. Candy bars cost 206. Skateboarding and surfing were very popular during this period. All 1977 cars came out with a speedometer that exceeded nothing over 85 mph and there were rectangular headlights. The Big Mac Attack hit Daytona. For the first time in years, students came to school with a blanket of snow on their cars. NA T I ONAL America celebrated its 200th birthday of inde- pendence. CBS saluted the American Bicentennial with 527,000 Bicentennial Minutes. Succeeding President Gerald Ford, the Gover- nor of Georgia, jimmy Carter, was elected the 39th President of the United States on November 4, 1976. Inauguration took place on january 20, 1977. ' Gary Gilmore, 36, was the first person to be executed in the United States in nearly 10 years. On Monday, january 17, at 10:06 A.M. he was executed by a firing squad at Point of the Mountain, Utah. 7,000,000 Americans were out of work between 1976 and 1977. Inoculations were distributed throughout the United States to prevent epidemics of Swine Flu from breaking out. What in the World? , SPORTS The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series against the New York Yankees in four straight games. Franco Harris, fullback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was awarded the Gladiator's Award as NFL Man of the Year. It was awarded, for 1000+ yardage, on December 26, 1976. Nadia Comaneci, 15 year old gymnast from Rumania, was the first to be rewarded with a perfect 10 on the opening night of the Olym- pic's gymnastic schedule in Montreal, Canada. She went on to win three gold medals, one silver and one bronze. Bruce Jenner, a 25 year old American athlete, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon with a record total of 8,618 points. Along with the gold medal for the 10 events, he won the title World's Greatest Athlete. Zenda Liess competed at Forest Hills and in the Virginia Slims Tournament. Steve Reeves placed fourth in the junior Division in surfing on the North Shore of Hawaii. The Unitd States earned 34 Gold Medals at the Olympics.

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What in the World? ENTERTAINMENT TOP TEN SINGLES OF 1976 1. If You Leave Me Now - CHICAGO 2. Don't Go Breaking My Heart - ELTON JOHN 84 KIKI DEE 3. Afternoon Delight - STARLAND VOCAL BAND 4. Silly Love Songs - WINGS 5. Play That Funky Music -- WILD CHERRY 6. December-63 - FOUR SEASONS 7. Theme from S.W.A.T. - RHYTHM HERITAGE 8. Boogie Fever - SYLVERS 9. Kiss and Say Goodbye - MANHATTANS 10. Rockin' Me - STEVE MILLER BAND YEAR'S BEST FILMS All The Presidentls Men Taxi Driver One Flew Over The Cuckools Nest' - The Sunshine Boys et te re FUNNIEST COMEDY Silver Streak BEST COMEDY Seven and A Half Percent Solution' a DEATHS jack Cassidy Freddy Prinze According to the Nielsen Ratings, Alex Haley's ROOTS was the most watched tele- vision program in the history of the televi- sion industry. ROOTS was the factual history of a black man's ancestry. INTERNATIONAL Hua Kuo-feng became acting premier upon the death of Chou En-lai in Febmary, 1976, and in October was named as successor to Mao Tse-tung as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. Devastating earthquakes turned hundreds of towns and villages to rubble in Turkey, Italy, the Philippines, Guatemala, and China with more physical destruction than could be remembered. After a journey of eleven months and 450 million miles, Viking I and Viking II landed on Mars to take atmosphere, weather, and soil chemistry, planetary tremors, and the all- important Search for life. Water which once flowed freely over the planet was found locked in the polar ice caps. LOCAL On Tuesday, january 18, 1977, most of the state of Florida had snow on the ground. Record lows reached into the low 20's. Thursday and Friday, january 21 and 22, schools were closed to conserve energy. A giant water slide CWater Coasterj was built just west of the railroad tracks on Nova Road in Port Orange. A new city hall was constructed for Daytona Beach at the corner of Orange Avenue and South Ridgewood.

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