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...second exhibit, “Jorge Borges at Houghton Library,” includes a selection of materials related to Borges’s tenure as Norton Professor of Poetry in the late 1960s. The exhibits display only a fraction of the writer’s work and personal correspondences that Houghton has amassed over the last three decades...
...Goldstein has enjoyed notoriety since the late 1960s, when he began to publish SCREW magazine, almost six years before Hustler emerged on the adult literature scene. SCREW, a once nationally published magazine which will celebrate its 35th anniversary this year, prides itself on its political satire and raunchy photos. SCREW has published interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Jack Nicholson and other stars (though most are preceded by the prefix porn). However, SCREW’s true claim to fame is its willingness to push the limits of printed pornography. Its best-selling issue was in 1973 when...
...look back at the 1960s, for instance, it's obvious that decade alone could provide 80; almost everything changed during those tumultuous years. America entered the decade as a young, brash superpower and left it chastened by the stout resistance of Ho Chi Minh's fighters in Vietnam and shaken by the deep divide over the war among its citizens at home. On the domestic front, women, gays and lesbians and young people joined blacks on the ramparts to press for their own liberation. Popular culture turned around so far and so fast that it became known as the counterculture...
Gavitt, who recalled the days during the 1950s and 1960s when Ivy teams were fixtures in the national college basketball scene, said that Ivies’ current struggle to compete nationally can be linked to the format of their need-based financial aid policies. He noted that attending Harvard or Yale is often the least cost-effective option for high school athletes and suggested that the entire conference move to a system of fully-funded aid packages that would not include loans...
DIED. ISSER HAREL, 91, Israeli spymaster who headed Mossad, the country's intelligence agency during the 1950s and early 1960s, and who masterminded the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1960; in Petah Tikva, Israel. In the 1975 book The House on Garibaldi Street, which was made into a TV movie, Harel wrote about how he snared Eichmann. Much feared by his enemies, Harel unmasked Israel Beer, a Soviet mole who had penetrated Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's inner circle, and once made a man confess by simply saying: "I know you're a Russian...