Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Howitt is correct ("Tech Talk," Apr. 26) in noting that preemptive multitasking "has existed for a long time," but he omits mentioning IBM's Time Sharing System (TSS) Model 360/67, which used a multitask environment, and paging of memory to create virtual memory. It too was created in the 1960s...
...regulate commerce among the several states." With the court's acquiescence, federal lawmakers have employed the clause as a way to extend their authority into areas of life as diverse as racial discrimination in restaurants and limits on farm products. Most of the civil rights legislation of the 1960s depends on the Commerce Clause. And in recent years Congress has eagerly seized upon the court's generous reading of the clause as a license to extend its jurisdiction even further, adding to the list of federal offenses crimes such as carjacking and drive-by shootings...
DIED. OTTO FRIEDRICH, 66, writer; of lung cancer; in Manhasset, New York. Boston-born Friedrich first hit his stride during his 1960s tenure at the Saturday Evening Post. During his subsequent years in the pages of Time and in his own nimbly crafted nonfiction, Friedrich emerged as an elegant explicator of just about everything: Superman, insanity, the pop art of Hollywood, the high art of pianist Glenn Gould, the collapse of German democracy, the demise of a rose garden...
With his recently published memoirs, McNamara broke 25 years of silence and proved that the nation has yet to recover from the disillusionment of that defeat. For four years in the 1960s, McNamara was in the national spotlight, confidently predicting a quick victory in Vietnam. Now he has once again entered the public spotlight, but this time to tell his compatriots what went wrong...
Still, it is far easier to condemn McNamara in hindsight than it is to appreciate the Cold War atmosphere of the 1960s. To the policy makers of the time, Communism was a very real threat, proven by the crises in Berlin and in Cuba that brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of war. Fear of falling dominoes in Southeast Asia and of the credibility of U.S. commitments elsewhere led the administration into the quagmire of Vietnam...