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...freedom we had in the 70s might have been squelched in the 80s, when everyone was trying to go to business school,” she said...
Although Bunting-Smith’s tenure predated the emergence of the women’s rights movements of the late 1960s and ’70s, many Radcliffe alumni became actively involved after they graduated...
...apartheid protests in 1985 occurred during a fraught time at the University in which liberal students, stuck in “the darkest years of the Reagan administration,” craved the revolutionary change enacted by the notorious rioters of the 60s and 70s, according to Anderson...
...picture was different in the 70s, when every young man's dream was to fly across the roads with his sweetheart on a Bajaj scooter. In north India, marriages meant a Bajaj scooter as dowry, Bajaj has said. Tejinder Singh, a retired brigadier in the Indian army, remembers his first Bajaj scooter that he bought with a loan of $70 in 1973. In those days of bicycles, a scooter felt like a royal luxury. "Riding in the night, with my wife at the back, her hands gently holding me was the most romantic feeling," he says...
...leather cover, the steering is scorching hot in the sun. The Maruti 800 - India's original people's car before the Nano came along - looks dated. The modest hatchback, and the Bajaj Chetak, India's answer to the Vespa, captured the imagination of the Indian middle class in the 70s and 80s and kept them buying for decades. But the small car and the scooter, long ubiquitous on roads throughout India, are no longer the toast of India's aspiring middle class. Over the last month, both companies have announced that they will be phasing out these beloved classics...