Word: 1960s
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What astonishes me about the Harvard Strike--which stands here as an example of the radical student movement of the 1960s--when I think of it a decade and a half later, is the peculiar disproportion between means and ends, between what we then called our "militancy" and the unprepossessing, almost trivial nature of our demands. We shut down Harvard University, but our initial demands--the abolition of ROTC and a halt to evictions in Harvard-owned housing ("Smash ROTC, No Expansion!" Remember?)--touched only peripheral, almost tangential concerns of Harvard as a university. Today they seem virtually irrelevant. ROTC...
...fast- track Washington bureaucrat under every President since Kennedy. The résumé's of all the women overlap in several places. All but Heckler grew up well-to-do in the South or West; all but Armstrong have postgraduate degrees. Dole was a Democrat in the 1960s; Armstrong campaigned for Harry Truman. Three are lawyers (O'Connor, Heckler, Dole), and three have lived on farms or ranches (O'Connor, Kassebaum, Armstrong...
Once a hallmark of American industry, productivity improvement in recent years has become elusive. In the 1950s and early 1960s, output per hour of work rose 3.2% annually. But from 1977 to 1982, U.S. manufacturing productivity grew by just .6%, while in West Germany the increase was 2.1%, in France 3.0% and in Japan 3.4%. Last year, however, the U.S. rate increased by 2.8%. In the first quarter of this year it was up at an annual pace of 3.2%. John W. Kendrick, a professor at George Washington University and a guest at last week's TIME Board...
Computers programmed to simulate the flight characteristics of complex aircraft have been used for training pilots since the late 1960s. Each space shuttle astronaut logs a minimum of 200 hours on a pair of $100 million NASA simulators before his first shuttle flight. In 1979 a University of Illinois engineer named Bruce Artwick squeezed all the features of a full-fledged simulator into a tiny microcomputer, thus giving the general public a chance to sit in the pilot's seat. The early Apple and Radio Shack versions of his program developed a cult following among computer hobbyists...
...others, including Capa's now famous shot. In 1954, Capa was killed on assignment in Indochina when he stepped on a mine. The fumbling young darkroom assistant in London, Larry Burrows, went on to become a famous photojournalist himself, winning the Robert Capa award for his heroic 1960s coverage of the Viet Nam War. In 1971, Burrows was killed in a helicopter crash in Laos...