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...great ideological struggle between individual freedom and communism is over. Paralleling this domestically, the great social movements of the century are equally worn out: notably the great civil rights and feminist movements, which lost much of their moral force as a result of their own successes in the 1960s...
That may be because it smacks of deja vu. What the proposal inevitably brought to mind was the 1968 Kerner Commission, probably the most famous government panel after the Warren Commission. Formed to examine why riots had hit more than a dozen American cities in the mid-1960s, it famously prophesied the world we verge on: "Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal...
...reviving the labor movement in America will take a heroic effort, no matter who wins. Beset by corporate downsizing and increasingly harsh union-busting tactics, labor has seen its share of the U.S. work force shrink from about 35% in the mid-1960s to just 15% today. The diminished unions have been powerless to lift the wages of the average worker, which have shown virtually no growth for the past two decades after adjusting for inflation, even as productivity and corporate profits have soared...
Precisely because of their distinctive features, the islands have become a magnet for tourists. The number of visitors has swelled from 1,000 in the early 1960s, after the Darwin Research Station opened, to more than 50,000 last year. Many of the off-islanders are ecotourists who are respectful of environmental laws, but some of the tour operators are not. Ship crews dump garbage and sewage directly into the sea, says Alfredo Carrasco, secretary-general of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Isles. "Tourists used to come here out of a pure interest in nature," he laments...
...very long ago when there would be two or three or four ladder members as senior tutors," Lewis said. "As late as 1960s, there were nine senior tutors, and seven of them were professors of one rank or another...