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...close did Claire Danes come to matching your own memories of your early life? It was like going into a strange time machine. She became me back in the '60s and 70's. (See pictures of a severely autistic boy and the woman who cares...
...Although scholarly interest in bluegrass arose in the ’50s and ’60s, some folklorists called the folklore of bluegrass ‘fakelore’ because it was viewed as too commercial and too popular,” O’Connor says. “But until the late ’50s it was known largely as ‘hillbilly music’—in a sense, you can’t get more folky than that. It occupies its own funny segment of the music world...
Albert Frey, Donald Wexler, William F. Cody, E. Stewart Williams. The names may draw blank stares for most people, but in Palm Springs these groundbreaking architects are the hallowed icons of 1950s and '60s design. They are referred to in hushed reverence the way national founders are in other parts of the globe. (Frey, in fact, is receiving his star this year on the Palm Springs walk of fame.) These trailblazers of cool minimalism found the ideal petri dish in midcentury Palm Springs: an anything-goes locale then flush with postwar affluence, forward-thinking Californian optimism and giddy Hollywood clients...
...took over a plane bound for Key West, Fla., and demanded that it fly to Cuba--and subsequent incidents prompted President Kennedy to declare that a "border patrolman" would be placed on a number of U.S. planes. The program was expanded following a flurry of hijackings in the late '60s. In 1970, U.S. Customs sent nearly 1,800 men and women to the U.S. Army's Fort Belvoir for "sky marshal" training. But as the attacks continued unabated, critics slammed the program as ineffective. When airport security measures improved (X-ray screenings of U.S. passengers' bags began in the early...
...compared to anything I've seen in 40 years, and it's still better than the House," says Norm Ornstein, author of The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track. "We see more and more people in their late 50s early 60s, who in years past would've been moving into the prime of their careers, decide to leave." (See TIME's special on Ted Kennedy...