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...DIED. BUDDY EBSEN, 95, Hollywood hoofer who became the world's best-known yokel by playing the role of accidental oil tycoon Jed Clampett in the 1960s television series The Beverly Hillbillies; in Los Angeles. Ebsen started out as a lanky song-and-dance man, and partnered with Shirley Temple in the 1936 film Captain January. He almost played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, but left the film because he was allergic to the aluminum makeup used for the role. Ebsen later starred as a geriatric private investigator in TV's Barnaby Jones...
...sick and tired of being the people in Europe everyone loves to put down, and Berlusconi proved why when he attempted to explain away his gaffe at the Strasbourg Parliament. Martin Schulz, he prattled, reminded him of Sergeant Shultz, the bumblingly sycophantic but endearingly human guard on the 1960s American sitcom Hogan's Heroes, which used to run on Berlusconi's private Mediaset network. That such a trite image of Germans would be foremost in his mind isn't just embarrassing to Berlusconi; it's embarrassing to Germany, too. Despite spending half a century in a painful, unprecedented process called...
Cremation Association of North America predicts that number will jump to 48% by 2025. That's owing, in part, to the swell of immigrants who practice Hinduism or Buddhism, as well as to the relaxing attitudes of the Roman Catholic Church, which began to allow cremation in the 1960s. Others are drawn by the convenience and low cost. A traditional funeral runs about $5,800, with burial fees adding $2,000 more. Cremation costs about $1,000. Cremated remains--called cremains in industry lingo--can be kept at home in urns, buried on family property (in all states except California...
...most out of a visit to your doctor. Hypochondriacs beware: "It's not a self-diagnosis book, and people who use it as such probably aren't using it as we intended," says assistant editor Michael Berkwits. FYI: Kawasaki syndrome, discovered in Japan in the 1960s, may show up in small children as skin rash, fever and enlarged lymph nodes. --By Sora Song
Those who vilify Hillary overlook the fact that she was the first of the baby-boom generation to become First Lady. Like thousands of American women, she went to college in the mid-1960s not to find a husband but to find herself. And unlike Barbara Bush or Jacqueline Kennedy, she was unwilling to bask in the reflected glory of her husband. Rather, she constantly tested the limits of her intelligence and abilities to make a meaningful contribution to her country. DAVID M. PETROU Washington...