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Fortunately, those vintage machines are still out there to be tracked down. Klinke estimates that there may be as many as 20,000 left out of several hundred thousand presses that existed in the 1960s. That bodes well for diehards like Webster, who admits he can't walk by a printed piece of paper without touching it. "If I see a flat-printed piece," he says, "I think, 'Boy, that would sure look neat if it were letterpressed...
...Total Immersion, many Jews, including the baths' builders (who were inevitably male) "felt that they belonged to the old country and didn't have a future." The result were mikvahs that would test any faith: "They were horrid: small, sparse and unfortunately, sometimes very dirty," she says. By the 1960s fewer than 200 survived in the U.S., and those were embattled: a feminist critique that ritual purity denigrated female sexuality seemed like "the last nail in the coffin," Slonim says...
...universe expanded, it finally cooled down enough to allow atoms to form and light to shine out across open space. The accidental discovery of that light back in the 1960s convinced astronomers that the Big Bang was a real event, not just a theoretical construct...
...DIED. Rudi Stern, 69, artist who specialized in what he called "painting stories with light"; in Cadiz, Spain. In the 1960s he designed projections for concerts by classical musicians and rock acts like the Doors and for psychedelic fetes put on by LSD promoter Timothy Leary. He later revived a dormant medium by establishing the aptly named New York City gallery Let There Be Neon, creating installations for performance artist Laurie Anderson and emblazoning the façade of a 78-story Hong Kong building...
...Lebanon. Working furiously for 48 hours, army engineers finished rebuilding the bridge just a few hours before the first tractor trailer carrying armored vehicles rumbled over. The bridge bowed but held, and Lebanon's army soon took symbolic possession of territory it hasn't controlled since the 1960s...