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July 26, 2018

Volume 48 - No. 30

By Friedrich Gomez

SPOTLIGHT ON OUR READERS. This storyline was inspired and requested by you, our wonderful readership family, including our online fans across America as far east as the eastern seaboard! It is important that we afford you, our readers, a viable forum to request topics which are most interesting to you. Thank you for your valued input.

THE 1970s & 1980s. As historians are quick to point out: “The decades covering the 1970s and The The Paper Paper -- 760.747.7119 760.747.7119

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1980s were many things, but one thing was for certain – the ‘70s and ‘80s were anything but boring!”

The 1970s and 1980s covered a wide spectrum of events, from the ending of the Vietnam War in 1975 to the stock market crash (known as Black Monday) in 1980, which impacted stock markets around the world. But the 1970s and 1980s in America were not without their highlights in the social, political, and technological arenas. The 1970s saw the beginnings of the modern personal

home computer, the voting age would be lowered from 21 to 18, and America led the world in recreational pursuits with the opening of Walt Disney World at Orlando, Florida. In sports, the 1980s decade would witness the opening ceremonies of the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, followed 4 years later with the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. In politics and law, Sandra Day O’Conner becomes the first woman in history to serve on the U. S.

Supreme Court.

LET’S BEGIN OUR JOURNEY! Let us now climb onboard our imaginary time machine and set the dials for the 1970s and 1980s and glimpse in our rearview mirror what life was like back then! Buckle up, sit tight, we are about to leave our present 2018 world and travel backwards – in time! KEEP SCORE BELOW 13-15 Correct: “You’re Awesome!” 10-12 Correct: “Excellent!” 7-9 Correct: “Very Good!” 5-6 Correct: “Passing Grade!”

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