Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pairing seems about as likely as a business lunch between Author Germaine Greer and Pop Singer Tiffany: Ms., the feminist bible born of the political turmoil of the 1960s, and Sassy, the impudent primer for the latest generation of boy-crazy teenage girls. But Sassy Founder Sandra Yates and Ms. Editor Anne Summers are betting that the two magazines will be the foundation of a new media empire. Last week the two transplanted Australians signed a deal to buy Ms. and Sassy from their former employer, Australia's John Fairfax...
Like military commanders following a major war, radical survivors of the embattled 1960s have been emerging from their bunkers to tell it like it really was. The latest is Tom Hayden, 48, who rose to New Left prominence as the drafter of the 1962 Port Huron Statement, the Magna Charta of the Students for a Democratic Society. Hayden appears to have been something of a crisis junkie, getting adrenaline fixes in confrontations with authority's billy clubs and tear-gas canisters in the Mississippi Delta and Newark, at Columbia and Berkeley. He acquired national notoriety as a demonstration leader...
...aboard that jet perished when the fuselage floor as well as roof peeled back at roughly the same altitude as that of Flight 243. Former top federal safety investigator C.O. ("Chuck") Miller, who studied the 1981 crash, points out that both vintage Boeing 737s were built in the late 1960s, endured tens of thousands of pressurization cycles, and operated in the highly corrosive atmosphere of the warm salt air over the Pacific Ocean. "The only difference this time is that . the fuselage floor held," Miller said. "But the fuselage skin on the Aloha flight started its peel-back almost exactly...
...Japanese program began modestly after World War II as reparations paid to Southeast Asian countries ravaged by the Imperial Army. In the 1960s, admits a Japanese official, "loan aid was primarily aimed at promoting exports and securing raw materials." Only by the 1970s did much of Japan's aid begin to flow into loans and grants for such projects as port facilities in the Philippines, highways in Indonesia and hospitals in Bolivia...
...Runyon decision became a key element in a fabric of court rulings that forbid racial discrimination in all kinds of private transactions. Although the civil rights laws of the 1960s prohibit discrimination involving housing, employment and public accommodations, they leave many areas of life uncovered. Runyon gave plaintiffs the power to sue for discrimination in just such areas -- for example, a refusal by a shopkeeper to sell to blacks -- and, equally important, to collect monetary damages...