Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member in Santa Cruz, says, rather clinically, "It's an understandable and common reaction for any animal society to rid itself of those who aren't productive." Part of the reaction seems to stem from a common perception that the homeless of today are basically the crazies of the 1960s refurbished with a new name. "We called them the hippies, and the beatniks before that, and hoboes before that," says Sergeant Bill Aluffi of the Santa Cruz police. "Most of them, I think, are burned-out druggies who walk around in a daze, begging on the mall, eating...
...appeal of much independent music is too narrow to interest many radio stations, so the little companies must find other ways to promote and sell their wares. Tom Rush, a popular folk singer of the 1960s who started his own Night Light label in 1976, boosts his mail-order sales with ads in The New Yorker. Manhattan's Select Records gave its rap single Roxanne, Roxanne (sales: 300,000) a fast start last November by persuading music-store clerks to blast the song on their sound systems, a promotion ploy that bigger companies had overlooked...
Indeed, U.S. scientists in recent years have been losing their competitive edge over colleagues in Europe and Asia. The NSF program that provided schools with state-of-the-art computers throughout the 1950s and 1960s was halted in 1972. Meanwhile, the governments of France, Germany, England and Japan aggressively subsidize supercomputer purchases for their leading universities. Says NSF Program Director Larry Lee: "It will take the U.S. a good two years to catch...
...Florida. Like the Nationalist Chinese who retreated to Formosa, Miami's Cubans expected to return home but stayed to capitalize on their skills and energies. Another similarity to their Oriental counterparts is an active anti-Communism that has attracted steady U.S. Government support. According to the author, during the 1960s the CIA maintained its largest station in Miami...
...destitute bantustans or homelands. Petty legal segregation was extended. The apparatus of the police state was crested, including a law permitting unlimited detention without trial. Despite these Draconian measures, the South African economy soared. Only the others country--Japan--outpaced South African in real growth in the 1960s. By the end of the decade, white South Africans were among the most affluent people in the world. Meanwhile, American corporations worked to integrate room and move Blacks into low-level management position...