Word: 1960s
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Bordinat also sees the '67s as "Italianesque." Maybe like Sophia? No, like Ferrari. Many of them will also look considerably like the Mustang-the one car of the 1960s that dared to be different and, as a result, helped Ford to close its sales gap with the rival Chevrolet Division to a 1.2% difference in market penetration...
Thus the economy of the 1960s has shown a fantastic resilience to shock and slowdown. It has surmounted such strains as sluggish demand in 1961, a stock-market plunge in 1962, the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, a foreign monetary crisis in 1964, and the Viet Nam escalation in 1965. The problems of 1966 and beyond seem infinitely greater than earlier ones. But so, too, are the opportunities...
...economy is facing its most perplexing situation of the fabulous 1960s. Production, profits and personal income are at record highs and still rising. Yet last week the auto industry, at least temporarily, cut back production because of disappointing sales, and the stock market shuddered through its worst fall since 1962. Amid these conflicting currents, Lyndon Johnson continued to ponder one of the toughest decisions of his presidency: whether to raise taxes to forestall the kind of inflation that would inevitably lead to a downturn later or to avoid a tax hike for fear that it would hurt business this year...
...cover treatment of the contemporary concepts of God. The project was under consideration by the editors for nearly a year. What first brought the idea into the continuing discussions of possible cover subjects was the visibly growing concern among theologians about God and the secularized world of the mid-1960s. It was given impetus by the emergence of the "God is dead" group of theologians (TIME, Oct. 22), and the stir they created...
...rigidly imposed during Stalin's lifetime, has loosened steadily over the past decade as the Communist regimes from the Baltic to the Black Sea have slowly found maneuvering room. Writes Rumanologist George Gross in the current issue of Problems of Communism: "A future Toynbee, looking at the 1960s, may well conclude that the central event of the current decade was the disintegration of the Soviet empire. Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe is fragmenting, and this process is bound to continue...