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Celebrating TIME'S 60th anniversary, this special issue undertakes to recall the most amazing six decades in history in the words we used to report them. It is not, however, a chronological anthology. Instead we classified the news into six broad categories, including War, Economics, Culture and Science. We then picked five major events in each of these categories, so that this issue offers highlights from 30 of the past 60 years. For each of those 30 years, we condensed TIME'S original account of a single major event to one page and devoted the facing page...
...frantic fanatics flooded George Herman ("Babe") Ruth with the wildest ovation ever accorded a baseball player. In the eighth inning of a New York game against Washington, Ruth hit a ball pitched by left-handed Thomas Zachary into the right field bleachers. The home run was Ruth's 60th of the season...
...business. The chairman of the Norton Simon conglomerate (fiscal 1982 sales: $3 billion) likes to bask in high-wattage limelight. He poses for profiles in magazines like Vogue and Success and appears in TV commercials for his Avis rent-a-car subsidiary. At his black-tie 60th birthday party last month, he and his wife Hillie, a former Miss Rheingold, played host to dozens of famous friends, including Estée Lauder, Alan King and Henry Kissinger...
...exactly the pinnacle of his career, the 60th birthday party for former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger did turn out to be a summit of sorts. Invited by his onetime student, Harvard Lecturer Guido Goldman, to wine and dine the evening away at New York City's Pierre Hotel last week, the 400 guests included such luminaries as former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, former President Gerald Ford, Secretary of State George Shultz and the widows of the Shah of Iran, Anwar Sadat, Lyndon Johnson and Nelson Rockefeller. Asked how he felt about getting older, Kissinger remained loyal...
...murder Hy [Tarnower]," insists Harris. "There is a difference between murdering and killing. It was a tragic accident." It will be another two months before the Westchester County court decides whether a new trial is warranted. Meanwhile, life in prison continues for Harris, who celebrated her 60th birthday over the weekend. Now living in a special house with private rooms at New York's Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the former headmistress of Virginia's fashionable Madeira School for girls spends her mornings making quilts or writing, her afternoons working with expectant mothers. Even the prospect of eventual freedom...