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McGuinness added that the Catholics remained "subservient" until the 1960s, and the British government took advantage of their "quiet" nature to manipulate them...
Carl Reiner just couldn't believe that Mel Brooks was 2000 years old. In the pair's famous 1960s comedy routine, "The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Man, Reiner observes incredulously, "Sir, you really don't look 2000." Undaunted, Brooks retorts, "Well, I take care of myself." Still not satisfied, Reiner demands that Brooks produce a birth certificate of some kind. Brooks answers, "We didn't have that then". Reiner prompts his subject, "So you were primitive." Nodding, Brooks elaborates, "We were primitive; we were atavistic; we were--what is the word I'm searching for--dumb...
...Kennedy legend. The legend survives because it was more than that. Kennedy was a turning point in American life, a President who restarted the nation's psychic engines and successfully brought the U.S. through some of the worst predicaments of the cold war. All the immensities of the later 1960s--Vietnam, the racial transformation of America and the erstwhile youth revolution--were set in motion during his presidency. That same complicated stature makes him a legitimate target for the grinding inquiries of real historians. It also makes him a natural one for the mud balls of less scrupulous commentators...
McCarthy recalls an officer he knew while growing up in New York during the 1960s. "On the corner on the way to school was Tony the cop," he says. "I remember him clearly to this day. He was out there every...
...accepting the UFW's statements about working conditions, the Crimson staff exposes its lack of knowledge about present-day conditions on California farms. True, when the UFW began its campaign for better working conditions in the 1960s, working conditions on many farms were poor. Today, however, farms are held to strict regulations when it comes to field sanitation, health insurance, drinking water and pesticide use. Growers who apply pesticides to their crops (and nearly all do) must file pesticide application records with local authorities, and must keep workers out of those fields for a specified number of days after application...