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...civil rights movement. She wasn't even born when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, the arrest that led not only to a yearlong bus boycott but also to the "official" beginning of the nonviolent movement. The first thing she remembered, and not from the time it happened, was an image of Governor George Wallace looming in a doorway at the University of Alabama, unwilling to let any black student enter. The fact that she was neither a participant in the movement nor a well-versed student...
...lived through the events or a child who had not -- could move around the piece, putting his hand through the water to touch the words or simply seeing his reflection in the water itself. And by doing so, the person could either remember, or learn for the first time, the history recorded there...
Alfred Eisenstaedt's exuberant V-J Day in Times Square. Dorothea Lange's moving Dust Bowl-era Migrant Mother. Neil Armstrong's historic Man's First Moon Walk. These are among the ten photos TIME has chosen as the most important news pictures in 150 years of photojournalism, and you can see them in a special collector's edition that appeared last week at newsstands around the country and in subscribers' mailboxes. From tens of thousands of images, special-projects editor Donald Morrison and his staff culled 91 in all, and finally chose ten that best define...
Poretz and fellow marketing executive Barry Sinrod have published The First Really Important Survey of American Habits (Price Stern Sloan, $4.95), a really important book for people who want to know what percentage of Americans rolls the toilet paper over the spool (68%) or what portion actually eats the fortune cookie (79%). Habits sold out immediately and is sprinting through its second printing toward a third. "It's a silly, funny, not-to-be-taken- seriousl y book," says Sinrod, a funny, not-to-be-taken-seriously fellow. He and Poretz mailed out questionnaires to a cross section...
Students of the American character will find plenty to chew on here, since the intrusive survey asks its recipients how old they were when they first made love (51% were under 18); whether they look behind the shower curtain or door when using someone else's bathroom (7% do); whether, if they found a diamond ring, they would attempt to locate the owner (79% would); and whether they eat corn on the cob side to side or in circles (for those who can't wait to find out, fully 80% eat it in circles...