Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early 1960s, when the two sides began girding for a bigger conflict, Saigon refused to allow the ICC to see the manifests of incoming aircraft (loaded with U.S. advisers and equipment). At the same time, Hanoi kept the commissioners from inspecting Haiphong Harbor. "The People's Army of [North] Viet Nam," said an ICC report at the time, "expressed its inability, despite its best efforts, to provide a boat with a suitable outboard motor...
...course, consumers had plenty of pocket money. Often during the 1960s, they have confounded economic forecasters by spending more lavishly than the experts had expected. This year, they went on something of a spree, correctly sensing that the prices of almost all goods and services were bound to rise. Such expectations become powerful economic forces, creating an inflationary psychology that is now firmly embedded in the thinking of businessmen, labor leaders and investors. Even after the tax increase, consumers rushed to buy practically everything. Their appetite for the well-styled 1969 autos was particularly keen; sales this year will reach...
...outraged letters to her mother, British Biographer Mary Lutyens goes beyond mere sex, or the lack of it, to the daily arena of a marriage gone irretrievably bad. She examines relentlessly the small social grievances, the resentful pinprick rivalries that gradually engulf and demean everyone concerned. In the orgiastic 1960s, Ruskin's sexual abstinence would be regarded for Effie as a fate only slightly better than death. Effie lived in an age inclined to view "all that" more as a duty than a cheerful privilege, however, and she knew little of sex when she married...
...Mexican-American) community in the Southwest, leftish labour members, and Indians from the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's supporters. It is a highly decentralized operation--mostly on a state level, but often on a community level--which in some ways resembles the conservative Republican movement of the carly 1960s...
Just before the start of the 1960s, Edward N. Cole, then a General Motors vice president, exuberantly forecast that before the decade was over Detroit would sell 10 million cars in a year. Cole has since been promoted to the presidency of the world's biggest manufacturer, partly because of his record of seeing the future clearly, but his fellow automakers have yet to prove him right in his most optimistic prediction. This year, however, they will come tantalizingly close...