Word: 1960s
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...late 1950s and early 1960s, Peter O. Sellar '58 formed a circle of actors and directors which acted as the catalysts of experimental drama," Kiely says...
DIED. VINCE EDWARDS, 67, actor; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles. As Dr. Ben Casey, he was surly, sarcastic, short-tempered--and that's just how he treated his friends. Yet TV viewers in the 1960s couldn't get enough of the neurosurgeon or of Edwards, who portrayed the combative Casey as the polar opposite of his ratings rival, the saintly Doctor Kildare (played by Richard Chamberlain). Prior to Ben Casey, Edwards was a B-movie gangster. After, he appeared in forgettable film and TV work, including the inevitable Return of Ben Casey...
Across many campuses in America, there are sharp racial divisions. It is common to walk into dining halls of colleges all over the country and find blacks sitting in one area and whites in another. The civil rights acts of the 1960s and the movement that fueled them were attempts at integration. Maybe the message college students are sending is that that effort failed, that a primarily white society has not been able to foster an inviting atmosphere. Blacks and whites may be choosing to separate from one another because, as society stands now, their worlds are too far apart...
Together, these factors add up to a significant drop in male fertility. In the 1960s, says Dr. Masood Khatamee of New York City's Fertility Research Foundation, only about 8% of the men who came for consultation had a fertility problem. Today that number is up to 40%. "This concerns us a great deal," he says, "and that's why we're so adamant about finding the causes...
AILING. KWAME TOURE, 54, Black Power activist known during the 1960s as Stokely Carmichael; with prostate cancer; in New York City. Toure was briefly hospitalized. His prognosis was described as good...