Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shortage of tubes that is likely to continue through 1964. Next year RCA will bring out a rectangular tube that will do away with the cropped corners on the screen and make the TV cabinet shallower. Portable color TVs are due in about three years. Looking toward the late 1960s or the 1970s, manufacturers are also working on practically priced home microwave ranges that bake a potato in five minutes, ultrasonic washers that clean without suds or water, and compact thermoelectric appliances that heat, cool and freeze without the aid of moving parts...
President Johnson's talk of economy may please most businessmen, but it sends a chill through the $20 billion defense industry, where the President has indicated that he intends to take most of his budget savings. In the second half of the 1960s, the current $51 billion defense budget is expected to drop to about $45 billion - about where it stood three years ago. Though the deep effects on the industry are still in the future, both businessmen and the Government are showing increasing concern about what defense companies will do as Government spending levels...
...equally important in the 1960s, perhaps, is the old prophecy of the late Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead: "In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute: the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. Today we maintain ourselves. Tomorrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated...
...peasants, Diem was ill at ease among the people and uninterested in grass-roots opinion. In the 1930s, Diem had quit as a minister under the French because, he said, "we had to have democratic reforms, or it was clear even then that the Communists would win." In the 1960s, that was the line the U.S. took with Diem, but now he argued that ordinary standards of democracy could not apply in a country fighting a "hot cold war." What finally persuaded the U.S., rightly or wrongly, that it could no longer win that war with Diem...
...Passed, by a 377-21 vote in the House, an expanded vocational education bill aimed at giving job training to some 21 million youths who will flood the labor market without college degrees during the rest of the 1960s. The measure, which next goes to the Senate, would increase the Federal Government's contributions to states from $57 million a year now to $237 million by 1967. The lopsided House vote came only after a party-line battle over Republican efforts to attach an amendment barring grants to segregated vocational training schools or programs. Democrats insisted that this...