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...While USA Freedom Corps is a new name, it actually serves as an umbrella organization for two of the nation's most venerable volunteer groups, Senior Corps and the Peace Corps, both established in the 1960s. It also covers the five-year-old AmeriCorps, started by President Clinton, and the brand new Citizen Corps...
DIED. HARDING LAWRENCE, 81, airline innovator who in the mid-1960s led the radical makeover and growth of the now defunct Braniff International Airways; in Mustique, West Indies. He perked up the airline with brightly colored planes and Pucci-designed flight-attendant uniforms (with help from Mary Wells, an ad executive who later became his wife), before a recession and high fuel prices drove the airline out of business...
...Women were having abortions before Roe, and they?ll continue to have them even if the ruling is reversed. Some estimates put the number of illegal abortions during the 1950s and 1960s at more than 1 million. Illegal abortions, of course, very often result in unspeakable pain, sterility or even death. They accounted for 17 percent of pregnancy and childbirth-related deaths in 1965 alone, and even today the World Health Organization estimates 78,000 women die each year from unsafe abortions. If safe and legal abortion is legislated away or ruled off the table, we're gong...
There must be a lot of lonely kids in America these days, judging from the skyrocketing rates of childhood obesity. According to the latest federal figures, the percentage of youngsters ages 6 to 11 who are overweight has tripled since the 1960s, to 13%. As many as 1 in 7 kids is obese, and doctors are seeing dangerously obese children as young...
...1960s, the New York art world was a little like Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average. Everyone was a radical, except an enlightened few. Koch was not, not at all. Born in 1909, he was self-taught, spent all his life in New York (except for a period of study in Paris) and died in 1978. There were quite a few reasons for well-thinking folk of a conventionally radical disposition not to take him seriously. One: he was a figurative painter. Two: he and his wife Dora Zaslavsky, a noted piano coach, were reasonably well...