Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian award, was created in 1945 as a wartime decoration and revived by John Kennedy in 1963 as an American counterpart to the Queen's list of Birthday Honors in Britain. In the Nixon Administration, the only other recipient has been Duke Ellington...
...Southeast Asia, gave a new lease of life to the Special Forces when he took office. The green beret was reinstated-almost enshrined. Said J.F.K. in 1962: "The green beret is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom." Around that time, 600 members of the Special Forces were serving as advisers in South Viet Nam. In those palmy days, the Green Berets were the darlings of the New Frontier. At Fort Bragg, they often entertained White House aides and members of Congress with what they called "Disneyland...
Despite its continuing evolution, organized crime follows certain basic patterns that vary little. It must buy or force freedom from the law and from accepted rules of commerce. It must milk gambling, the narcotics trade, industrial relations and usury. It must find outlets for its accumulated profits. These are its main forms of activity...
...growing number of young readers, editors are letting their younger charges have their head-within limits. Explains Emmett Dedmon, editorial director of Field Enterprises, which owns the Daily News and the Sun-Times: "This is the era of the young, socially aware reporter. We allow them more freedom today in assigning themselves, but too often they want to treat the newspaper as a pulpit. We want their personal insights rather than their personal preaching...
...American folklore, has always been considered more romantic than reprehensible. Each year, an estimated 100,000 middleaged, muddle-income American men flee the seemingly unbearable pressures of their jobs and families to seek a different life far from home. But for many of them, the heady wine of freedom soon goes flat. What then? After a few weeks, according to the Tracers Company of America, a New York firm that specializes in finding missing people, these runaways begin to act quite predictably. By sending up naive signal flags, they consciously or subconsciously ask to be found...