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...mostly. The 1960s civil rights movement had swept away official racism in the U.S., along with the last anti-miscegenation laws. But word had evidently not yet reached the Chais' corner of South Dakota-a bleak, windswept realm of farming and ranching, where rising interest rates and falling prices for agricultural goods were pushing many of their neighbors toward bankruptcy. "My father didn't realize that he was moving his family into a region whose economic base was, in fact, being devastated," says Chai. That economic anxiety, plus growing unrest among Native Americans on nearby Indian reservations, only deepened...
...Anything can be art and anyone can do it,” claims George Maciunas, the founder of the Fluxus movement. The 1960s saw Maciunas filling Fluxboxes with games, ideas, and art; Nam June Paik forging robot sculptures out of television sets; and the likes of John Cage and Allan Kaprow creating “Happenings” with minimal script and ambiguous staging to blur the lines between art and reality. They formed part the loose network of border-crossing artists that shared the ethic of Fluxus. “Fluxus on Film” will be onscreen...
Meet John Mackey. Tight end for the Baltimore Colts (1963-1971) and San Diego Chargers (1972). Five-time Pro Bowler. Member of the National Football League (NFL) 1960s All-Decade Team. The second “pure” tight end to enter the NFL Hall of Fame...
...radio operators have been around since the beginning of radio; in fact, amateur radio enthusiasts were the first people to pick up the Titanic’s distress signals in 1912. Since the 1960s, some real fanatics have gotten even more serious about broadcasting and formed pirate stations that operate outside the Federal Communication Commission’s jurisdiction...
What accounts for these Byzantine rules? Since the 1960s, Harvard has advertised that its admissions process is “need blind.” Reviewers don’t see applicants’ financial aid files, so Harvard can guarantee that it’s not just cherry-picking students who can pay full-price. By contrast, other schools (including Tufts) routinely reject some applicants from low-income families because the financial aid burden would be too heavy...