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...early 1960s, after a postwar decade of industrial enterprise, were another boom time for INVENTIONS. As will no doubt be true of the current crop, some consumer goods had more staying power than others, as this TIME cover shows...
Hollings: The women [Senators] have made a material change. [In the late 1960s] we had one gal, Margaret Chase Smith. You'd never hear from her. Now you can't shut them up. We've got 14, and they're outstanding...
...from the start and then send out into the cold, only to have him return years later to save the agency at its most critical hour--he would have looked a lot like Porter Goss. Reared in Connecticut, Goss prepped at Hotchkiss, studied Greek at Yale and spent the 1960s in the agency's clandestine service, overseeing covert operations in Latin America and Europe. His years as a spy left little trace on his résumé. He quit the CIA in 1971 after a mysterious case of blood poisoning nearly killed him. Goss settled down to a quiet life...
...Those values have been under sustained attack since the late 1960s, says Bill Muehlenberg, vice president of the Australian Family Association. In that rebellious era, "the importance of authority, family, religion were all chucked out in favor of the idea that God is dead, there are no values, we can all create our own right and wrong," says the Baptist theologian. "We've had a good 40 years of that social experiment, and by every indicator - crime, suicide, pornography, drug abuse - it looks like an experiment that's failed...
Charlap, 38, can claim this music as a birthright. His father, who died when he was 7, was Broadway composer Moose Charlap (Peter Pan, Kelly) and his mother is singer Sandy Stewart, who toured with Benny Goodman and co-starred on Perry Como's 1960s TV show. In his parents' Manhattan apartment, young Bill mingled with composers like Charles Strouse, who wrote the musical Bye Bye Birdie, and lyricists like Alan and Marilyn Bergman (The Way We Were) and the one he called "Uncle Yip," E.Y. Harburg (Somewhere Over the Rainbow, April in Paris...