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...Canada--came when he said, "I will keep the promise of universal and high-quality health care." At 65, he has become a quintessential figure of the Canadian establishment, a millionaire shipping magnate whose father, a stalwart of the Liberal Party, very nearly became Prime Minister himself in the 1960s. Yet the anticipation that he will bring a new energy to Canadian politics is palpable. If ever a politician risked being a prisoner of high expectations, Paul Martin does...
...mighty whiff of postwar nostalgia - and a glimpse into the obsessive otherworld of the trainspotters, who track locomotives the way some folks watch birds. The service is run by the tiny Steam Dreams company with the aid of volunteers who maintain vintage locomotives like the 1945-built Bodmin. Its 1960s cars are wood-paneled, the seats broad. Whether you're riding Standard (from 357), First (3100) or Dining class (3145), there's no doubting the train's charm: heads turn, people wave, spotters jot numbers and take snaps. Diners get bubbly and a full English brunch...
...Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse (DC Comics; 1995) A novel set in the South during the 1960s, "Baby" tackles both the civil rights movement and the complications of being gay at that time. It's a moving work featuring people - Southerners, blacks, and gays - who don't get much serious attention in this medium...
...film focuses on Robert S. McNamara’s handling of the Vietnam War during his seven-year tenure in the 1960s as U.S. Secretary of Defense...
...this has nothing to do with a misunderstanding or negative attitude towards modern art, nor with the negligence of any specific player. On Rothko’s part, Mancusi-Ungaro says, “if [he] had called a conservator when he was making these paintings in the early 1960s and said ‘I bought this red paint, is it okay to use?’ No one would have been able to tell him whether it would fade...