Word: 1950s
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...went through boot camp in the 1950s or '60s would recognize the place today. Soldiers-in-training have swapped combat boots for sneakers (easier on the feet), fatigues for gym shorts and T shirts. Instead of running in formation, they run at their own pace, to challenge the speedy and avoid injuring the slower ones. On military obstacle courses they can run around, instead of over, some walls. In some quarters the very phrase "obstacle course" is frowned upon as too harsh. For the Navy, "confidence course" is now the preferred term...
...approvingly by millions. The copious and burnished national media attention merely ratified a long-standing truth: that although the Mormon faith remains unique, the land in which it was born has come to accept--no, to lionize--its adherents as paragons of the national spirit. It was in the 1950s, says historian Jan Shipps, that the Mormons went from being "vilified" to being "venerated," and their combination of family orientation, clean-cut optimism, honesty and pleasant aggressiveness seems increasingly in demand. Fifteen Mormon Senators and Representatives currently trek the halls of Congress. Mormon author and consultant Stephen R. Covey bottled...
...1950S U.S.: BIRTH OF THE BOOM...
WHAT WILL KILL THE BOOM Perhaps another oil shock. But the economy is in its seventh year of expansion--better than the 1950s and the Roaring Twenties. And this expansion should last out the 1990s, which would set a record for duration...
ECONOMIC BACKDROP Prior transitions from war to peace were accompanied by painful economic downturns. But the 1950s radically parted with that tradition as a result of massive federal intervention and the fact that the U.S. emerged physically unscathed, and rich, from history's most destructive war. Government helped: the Employment Act of 1946 (promoting maximum employment and production), the G.I. Bill (giving veterans financial aid to return to school) and the Federal Aid Highway Act (building highways everywhere) eased the transition to a peacetime economy...