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...Dutchman - has shed a harsh light on the practice of decommissioning ships. Older vessels, in particular, present a devil's brew of toxins, from asbestos insulation of engines and decks to pcbs, acids and heavy metals in paints and coatings. The problem concerns more than just military craft. The 1960s and '70s were boom years for commercial shipping in European countries, and as those ships age, the need to decommission them has expanded: almost four times as much tonnage was scrapped last year as in 1990, and that number is expected to rise another 20-25% between...
DIED. WILSON PICKETT, 64, volatile R&B star whose gravelly, raunchy delivery on such 1960s hits as Mustang Sally and In the Midnight Hour inspired the 1991 film The Commitments and helped earn him the moniker Wicked Pickett; of a heart attack; in Reston, Va. Despite drug and legal battles, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer remained inventive and determined, answering the disco craze with explosive live performances, which he continued until shortly before his death, and meriting a 2000 Grammy nomination for It's Harder Now, his first album in a decade...
Many trace the erosion of trust back to the counterculture 1960s with its clarion call, "Never trust anyone over 30." But Kate Watts, a London-based marketing expert, says a turning point in the deference offered to those in traditional positions of authority could have come as early as World War I, with its senseless slaughter of a generation of European men. She quotes two lines of a poem by Rudyard Kipling: "If any question why we died,/ Tell them, because our fathers lied." Whatever its roots, today's disdain has implications for companies beyond their corporate image. Watts points...
...Forbes, a fixture on the Harvard campus for more than a half-century, joined the Music Department in 1958 and led the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society through the 1960s. He retired from his post as Peabody professor of music...
...Richard E. Wilson ’63, the Glee Club’s accompanist in the early 1960s, said that Forbes was an indefatigable source of advice and encouragement for many students...