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DIED. CHARLES DEDERICH, 83, power-mad founder of the drug-rehabilitation program Synanon; in Visalia, California. Synanon, which combined spartan communal living and aggressive group therapy, was widely acclaimed in the 1960s but eventually disbanded in the wake of increasingly bizarre behavior by Dederich, who proclaimed his organization a religion and was convicted of conspiring to commit murder by placing a rattlesnake in an opponent's mailbox...
...Cambridge Police Department's annual crime report for 1996, released last week, revealed that crime rates are at the lowest they have been since the department began keeping track of these statistics in the 1960s...
Lott and Clinton are also five years apart, a gap that feels like a whole generation. Clinton came of age in the late 1960s, surrounded by the Eastern elite: at Georgetown University, Oxford and Yale Law School. He protested for racial justice and against the war in Vietnam. He grew a beard, didn't inhale and was as undisciplined then as now, studying in last-minute crams and failing to earn a degree at Oxford...
...have only recently had the chance to enter the political community-building process, since women officially gained the vote and citizenship in 1920, and most blacks and many poor people were prevented from voting or legitimately participating in politics until the voting law reform and judicial landmarks of the 1960s...
...They really used to roll up the sidewalks at 8 p.m.," Sullivan recalls. "In the middle of the 1960s, Harvard Square was really a college town. Stores served homeowners, housewives and college students...