Word: 1960s
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Many of the alternative weeklies have their roots in the counterculture protest papers of the 1960s, but like their readers, most of the editors these days are a bit more materialistic. The Phoenix New Times (circ. 130,000) was operated by a collective until Publisher Jim Larkin and Editor Michael Lacey bought the paper in 1977 after they had left the group. Now New Times has annual ad revenues of $6.2 million. Says Larkin: "We've gone from being a collective to being champions of free enterprise...
...1960s the very name Club Med brought forth images of suntanned, beautiful single people cavorting on beach blankets over wine and under moonlight. Then when the original clientele grew older and got married, Club Med added day-care facilities for children and shifted the recreational emphasis from scuba diving to golf and tennis. Now Paris-based Club Mediterranee Group, the world's largest seller of packaged holiday fun, is in the midst of its most radical departure yet: an all-out campaign to lure corporate clients to its 95 villages in 25 countries in all the balmy parts...
Reagan took office after a long, depressive streak of American history that began with the assassination of John Kennedy and proceeded through the riots and other assassinations of the 1960s, the Viet Nam War, Watergate, Nixon's resignation, the Arab oil embargo, the Iranian hostage crisis. Jimmy Carter was apparently overwhelmed by the presidency. The Club of Rome's Spenglerian predictions about the earth's shrinking resources shadowed the '70s, and Carter at last announced that there was a malaise in the land. The drift was bleak: things would get worse and worse and never get better again. Reagan...
...world much as AT&T had connected phone users in the U.S. For decades thereafter, Behn's successors at ITT remained true to his vision. Even when ITT's acquisitive chairman Harold Geneen began buying dozens of companies in such fields as aerospace, bakery goods and cosmetics in the 1960s and 1970s, he kept ITT firmly planted in global telecommunications...
...British government's opposition to sanctions is even stronger than the Reagan Administration's. Despite rising public outrage at South Africa, as evidenced by a large demonstration in London last Saturday, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher contends that such measures would be as ineffectual as those taken in the 1960s and '70s against the white rebel government in Rhodesia. She believes that they would hurt black South Africans, not to mention the independent black states to the north (see box), long before they would have any real impact on apartheid. Thatcher is also obviously concerned about Britain's estimated $8 billion...