Word: 1960s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Basketball is special to Callahan. "I grew up with the game," he says. "As a sportswriter in the late 1960s, I covered the San Diego Rockets and later the Cincinnati Royals, and I still miss those associations. I used to see 100 games a year. On the road, sharing cabs and airport check-in lines, we were a small and sometimes forlorn band: the Rockets and the Royals lost a lot, and coming into New York City to play the then triumphant Knicks in front of 19,500 people could be a rather poignant experience...
...magazine Outlook, Hu blamed "radical leftist nonsense" for Communism's failure to meet the economic goals set after the 1949 revolution. Specifically, he warned that China can "never again afford" notions promoted by Mao Tse-tung during the 1958-59 Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s. Hu's observations about the turbulent past highlighted China's current embrace of a new economic philosophy stressing incentives and rewards, propounded by de facto Leader Deng Xiaoping. Correspondent David Aikman, a longtime student of Chinese affairs who has just completed a two-year assignment as TIME...
DIED. Iosif Shklovskii, 68, maverick Soviet astrophysicist and radio astronomer who made basic discoveries about neutron stars, quasars and novas (exploding stars), and also led the Soviets' search for extraterrestrial intelligence; of undisclosed causes; in Moscow. In the mid-1960s he posited that some intense radio emissions came from advanced alien civilizations, but they proved to be from quasars. Shklovskii's 1966 collaborative book with U.S. Astronomer Carl Sagan, Intelligent Life in the Universe, is still considered the basic treatise on the prospects for life beyond earth...
Westside was founded at the tail-end of the last major movement for educational change School reform is, in 1985, again an issue of concern to parents and politicians, but the emphasis is completely different. Where educational theorists in the 1960s sought: to tree the student from the bounds that allegedly shackled tree though in the public schools, today's reformers seek a return to what they think schools were in the Good Old Days places where dedicated and respected teachers rigorously taught the traditional disciplines to eager and obedient pupils From California Supt of Public Instruction Bill Hong...
...President or the Governors currently possess the most political courage. It centers on the question of just which governmental functions should be national, and financed by all taxpayers, and which are primarily local and should be funded locally. Federal grants to states and cities took root in the 1960s largely as Democratic programs aimed at particular problems, including health, nutrition, housing and jobs. Funds were earmarked for very specific purposes, and Washington set standards that had to be met to get the money. Richard Nixon instituted general revenue sharing in 1972; by next October $78.6 billion will have gone...