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...light and ventilation, using just half the energy of a typical office block. Designed by Sir Norman Foster for global reinsurers Swiss Re, the building's elegant outline has reassured locals that architecture can be both attractive and high-rise, even in a city that, as late as the 1960s, prohibited the construction of buildings taller than St. Paul's Cathedral. In fact, the 40-story tower has already sparked a rethink of London's urban landscape, with three more statement skyscrapers planned in its wake. It has also become the capital's most fashionable-and exclusive-events venue...
...process, he made them believe in the presidency as well. After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon and overwhelmed Ford and Carter. Reagan restored the belief that an ordinary American raised in the heartland could lead the country and give it a sense of direction and purpose. At a time when the country had been captivated by youth culture for more than a decade, voters chose a President who was nearly 70 when he took office, a kind of living...
...they decided that Reagan should be their gubernatorial candidate in 1966. Governor Pat Brown was an amiably conventional liberal, who ran on his amiably conventional record. Reagan spotted and exploited a new issue: middle-class discontent over disturbances at the University of California and over the disturbances of the 1960s in general. He vowed to "clean up the mess at Berkeley." He won by a margin of almost 1 million votes out of 6.5 million...
Nathan M. Pusey ’28, Harvard’s 24th president, dies at the age of 94. Serving during the 1950s and 1960s, his administration led the University’s first major fundraising campaign and also focused on undergraduate education. His presidency ended in controversy as a result of the 1969 bust of a University Hall takeover...
...first rose to prominence in the 1960s and, in the years since, has led a new wave of economic theory based on concern for the human implications of financial pressures on disadvantaged populations...