Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such meeting in the 35-year history of the People's Republic and the first since 1979. Delegates freely discussed how China should never again experience the crackdown that followed Mao's "Let a hundred flowers bloom" movement in 1957 or anything like the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s, when many writers were banished to manual labor for failing to toe the ideological line. What attracted the most attention, however, was a speech made by Hu Qili, a high- ranking member of the party's Secretariat. Hu told his 800 listeners that the party believed "literary creation must...
...former political prisoners will get their visas as soon as the U.S. beefs up its staff in Havana to begin processing applications. More than 15,000 other Cubans have applied for regular visas, and in all, more than 20,000 may be permitted to immigrate in 1985. During the 1960s and '70s, an average of about 26,000 Cubans arrived legally in the U.S. each year, reaching a peak of 70,000 during Jimmy Carter's first year in office. Since the 1980 flotilla, fewer than 3,000 Cubans a year have been allowed into...
...trade gap greatly worsened what would otherwise have been a normal slowing after a period of rapid expansion. Such pauses for breath frequently aroused fears of a slump during the economic recoveries that occurred in the 1960s and '70s. Recalled Walter Heller, a University of Minnesota economist and the chief economic adviser to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson: "I remember Kennedy being terribly worried in 1962 that there would be a recession, and on the basis of very much the same kind of thing we are looking at here. We assured him that that would...
...saying all those unkind things about ITT? The $14.2 billion conglomerate wants desperately to know what schemers are staging a campaign to sell the company, or break it up. No one would have listened to such talk during the telecommunications firm's glory days in the 1960s and 1970s. But now, beset by stagnating profits, ITT's management is trying to stamp out those ideas before they become self-fulfilling...
...over 150,000 American public high school students took the language, down a disastrous 79% from the 1962 peak of 702,000. "Latin went into a slump with the Sputnik era, with its concentration on science and technology," she recalls. And she says, "Then came the permissive age," the 1960s and early 1970s, when demands for so-called relevancy in course content pushed many schools to reduce or abandon classical studies and language instruction...