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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a rumor that the Beatles wanted to rename themselves "Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," and that the album cover depicts a wake at the grave of that old and outdated group called the Beatles. The new name stirs up nostalgic images of a group of old Edwardians seated on a bandstand in military uniforms playing brass marches in a simpler age of long summer afternoons. The Beatles may also know that the Edwardian age was one of violent idealistic movements, once described as "Britain's national nervous breakdown," and much closer our own age than most...
...cover of the New York Review of Books, a biweekly publication that offers highly literate book reviews to highly literate readers, normally carries nothing more than large-type announcements of what is inside. What is inside is words, with a sprinkling of pen-and-ink caricatures with oversized heads by David Levin. Last week, to the wondering eyes of its white, middle-class readers, Review devoted the lower third of a cover dealing with books on Negro rebellion to a detailed, do-it-yourself diagram of a Molotov cocktail. Some were amused, some were startled, none were likely to make...
...Cover) Shed no nostalgic tears for New port. The great "Gilded Age" of the early 1900s - when O.H.P. Belmont's carriage horses used to sleep on pure white linen sheets, and William Fahnestock festooned the trees on his estate with 14-carat gold artificial fruits-has passed. But Rhode Island's "Queen of Resorts" still has its cachet and its names: the Auchinclosses, the Dukes, the Donahues, the Drexels, Lorillards, Woolworths and Hartfords...
...start," says his father, now 70, "that Bus had what it takes to be a great sailor." When he was only 16, Cornelius ("Corny") Shields asked him to sail on his Interna tional Dinghy team-a high honor, indeed, coming from the famous "Grey Fox" of U.S. yachting (TIME cover, July 27, 1953). But Emil Sr. felt Bus still had lots to learn. "The thing that made me mad was his extreme conserva tism-especially with money. I remember once he was racing in the Midget Star class during Manhasset Race Week. I went down to the dock to check...
Power & Comfort. Equipment is generally getting bigger and more powerful, with the average farm tractor now boasting 65 h.p. v. 27 h.p. in 1950. The increased power enables farmers to pull bigger implements, cover broader swaths, move faster across the fields. At the same time, there is more emphasis on comfort. Combines and tractors are now available with roomy, enclosed cabs featuring such luxuries as heaters, air conditioning, radios, tinted glass, cushioned seats-and even automatic transmissions...