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...that halted the Korean War, the two neighbors have been at loggerheads over issues of censorship. The state-run media in the North has long derided South Korea's "decadent foreign culture and ideals," and has banned nearly all South Korean, American and Japanese films in favor of 1960s Soviet and Chinese films rife with revolutionary ideas. Foreign films are allowed to be shown in some contexts, such as the Pyongyang International Film Festival held every other fall, and in recent weeks state television has occasionally shown Disney films like Snow White, Cinderella and Robin Hood. But a wide selection...
Dick and Mac McDonald opened their eponymous burger stand in 1948 in San Bernardino, Calif. Under the guidance of Ray Kroc, a onetime milkshake-mixer salesman wowed by the restaurant's success, McDonald's franchises grew swiftly: by the end of the 1960s, there were more than 1,000 across the U.S. The first international franchise opened in 1967 in British Columbia, and was followed by another in Costa Rica later that year. From there, the chain spread steadily: over a six-month period in 1971, Golden Arches popped up on three new continents, as stores launched in Japan, Holland...
Sizer, who was known as the “boy dean” on campus after being selected as Dean of the GSE at the age of 31, had to grapple with the societal upheaval of the 1960s during his term, including the Vietnam War and student riots, according to Patricia A. Graham, a professor of the history of American education and another former dean...
...Then, as food prices spiked, there was real concern that the world was facing a Malthusian crisis in which the planet was simply unable to produce enough grain and meat for an expanding population. Governments across the developing world and international aid organizations plowed investment into agriculture in the 1960s and 1970s, while technological breakthroughs, like high-yield strains of important food crops, boosted production. The result was the Green Revolution. Food production exploded. In India, for example, grain output more than doubled between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s...
...intimate portrayal of our troops broke my heart. In the 1960s, Pete Seeger wrote, "Where have all the soldiers gone?" and lamented the government's choices: "When will they ever learn?" A lot has changed since Seeger wrote those words, and then again, nothing has changed...