Word: 1960s
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...nominally made up of six students and seven faculty members, but critics have charged that the membership is not chosen democratically and that the body only acts against political activists. It bases its judgments on the 1960s-era Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, which stresses the preservation of freedoms of speech and movement...
Homeless people have camped out in the Santa Barbara area since the Southern Pacific Railroad came to town in 1887. But never before have they seemed so omnipresent. Some attribute the worst of the problem to the wholesale release of patients in the 1960s. Without adequate halfway houses to care for them, the ill ended up on the streets. Others believe homelessness has been aggravated by unemployment, divorce and eviction; people sleep in the parks because they cannot afford the city's high-priced housing: two-bedroom apartments rarely rent for less than $800 a month, after two months' deposit...
...real wild card in the French parliamentary election is Jean-Marie Le Pen, 57, a far-rightist. Le Pen has capitalized on France's xenophobia, waging a crusade that resembles in some of its substance and style the U.S. campaigns of Alabama Governor George Wallace during the 1960s. Le Pen and his National Front charge that France's 4.2 million immigrants are responsible for high unemployment and a high crime rate. Hidden just below the surface is veiled racism against immigrants. Le Pen has been charged with taking part in torture sessions while serving as a paratrooper in Algeria...
...mother in 1929, left the family oil business to produce a few minor films like Flare-up with Ursula Andress, and claims that "the only thing I inherited from my father was his love of animals." Jean Paul Jr., 53, one of the most flamboyant jet-setters of the 1960s, is a reclusive rare-books collector in London. Depending on which biography you read, he wore either yellow or white shoes to his father's funeral. Gordon Peter, 52, is a classical composer who involved himself in Getty Oil long enough to sell the company to Texaco. Grandson Jean Paul...
...1960s, Petrus was introduced to American wine lovers by the late Henri Soule, owner of the tony Le Pavillon restaurant in New York. Explains Alexis Lichine, author of A Guide to the Wines and Vineyards of France: "It was served at Le Pavillon in the days when Onassis sat at a corner table. After that, Chateau Petrus became a status symbol, the sort of name dropped by people who wish to imply not only that they know wine but that they are in wine...