Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while Castro has been ex posed as a bungling adventurer. The Brazilian revolution ended the drift to Communism under a feckless leftist President; Chile averted the same fate in a head-to-head election in which the Christian Democrats' Eduardo Frei won an overwhelming victory; Mexico continues its boom under the able Gustavo Diaz Ordaz; and long-turbulent Peru is enjoying a rare peace and prosperity under Fernando Belaunde Terry (TIME cover, March...
...higher education is caught with a supply of professors trimmed by the low training rate of the times before and just after World War II and a demand of students swelled by the baby boom of the late '40s. On top of that, the growth of postgraduate education has forced top professors to concentrate much of their teaching effort on older students. The sum of such pressures is that many universities are turning over a large share of freshman and sophomore teaching to graduate students. These teaching fellows or teaching assistants-often called TAs-have for thousands of students...
Manhattan Art Dealer Leo Castelli is one of the biggest boosters of pop art. As if to confound critics who are proclaiming that the boom is already a bust, Castelli in the past fortnight has managed to sell the world's largest pop painting, by James Rosenquist, and exhibited the world's noisiest contempo rary sculpture, by Robert Rauschenberg. What do the two have to do with each other? To hear the artists tell it, both are simply expressions of today's urban landscape...
Back to Fun. There are dozens of rock 'n' roll groups in the U.S., most of them Negro, who can sing better and play better than the Beatles. But somewhere between the "ya da da da da da da" of Sh-Boom and the whine of Hound Dog, U.S. rock 'n' roll groups became mired in lamenting lost love and other ailments of the heart. By refusing to take themselves seriously, the Beatles made rock 'n' roll fun again...
From Park Avenue to Pensacola, girls are wrapping themselves in the oilcloth look. The fashion house of Originala adopted it for a $200 trench coat, and fashion firms in the $30 to $75 range are now coming in strong on the vinyl boom...