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...everyone liked the Pringles can when it first hit the market. "People resented it," says Phil Lempert, founder of supermarketguru.com. Uniform chips didn't jell with 1960s-era individualism, he says. "You gave up the fun of eating potato chips, looking for the big ones, the small ones, the ones shaped liked Elvis." Lempert said it took consumers years to appreciate Pringles' uniform size, shape and color. "The Pringles can was a revolution within the realm of snack food," says Baur...
...debate about physicals has been going on for more than 100 years. In the 1960s and 70s, two large randomized controlled trials were conducted, and both studies showed little positive impact - people who had physicals did not seem to live longer or have less illness than those who did not have physicals. ... Most patients in this country believe an annual physical is necessary, but there's little evidence to support that at this time...
...Kennedy’s loud and visible opposition, the President’s attempts to roll back some sensible and compassionate social programs might have met with even more success. Yet Kennedy’s political platform has often seemed more suited to the Great Society of the 1960s than to the more fiscally tight 1980s. Along with Bay State congressional colleague Tip O’Neill, Kennedy has increasingly been seen as a caricature of the decline of 1960s urban liberalism, a vestigial proponent of an outdated philosophy. Exit polls during last month’s midterm elections illustrated...
...1960s he was heavily involved in the civil rights movement in Mississippi, where he had attended Tugaloo College, a historically-black institution. (It was later revealed that he had been investigated and threatened by the FBI’s notorious COINTELPRO, which was charged with disrupting and discrediting the activity of individuals and groups that it deemed dangerously radical...
...members makes it among the largest congregations in Chicago - and the largest in the United Church of Christ, a predominately white protestant denomination. When Wright assumed leadership of Trinity in 1972, it barely had 90 members. He steered it toward Black Liberation Theology, which had emerged in the late-1960s largely in response to the Black Power Movement and the Nation of Islam - both of which questioned whether one could be black and Christian...