Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turbulence in China, the changes in the Communist camps and in the Western alliance, the fitful attempts to build the Great Society in the U.S., the continuing adventure in space. As usual, our readers joined in the Man of the Year search; their nominations were led by the late Walt Disney and ranged in altitude from God to the devil. Yet no single earthly figure, so it seemed to the editors, bestrode the year as did the restless, questing young...
...eyes of many a modern university protester, this was the golden age of education. The essential debate between Lernfreiheit, student freedom, and the Anglo-Saxon tradition that the college stood in loco parentis, was first articulated in Germany in the late 18th century, and later drew some 9,000 American students eager to endorse the new freedom. The issue is still being fought on American campuses...
...late afternoon in Saigon when Dr. Phan Quang Dan, 49, set out for an important session of South Viet Nam's Constituent Assembly. His green, 1955 Hillman was parked under a tall tamarind tree, and he backed it off the sidewalk onto the street. "I heard a dragging noise when I first started to back up," he recalled later, "and I knew right then it was probably a mine or plastique." The doctor's diagnosis was correct. An explosion ripped a two-foot hole through the front seat. Dan escaped with light shrapnel wounds in his legs...
...game that Beers hunted in the mountains. When possible, they stuffed their 150-lb. psaltery, dulcimer, fiddles, banjos, guitars, buckskin drums and camping equipment into and on top of their Volkswagen and toured the mountain towns and country fairs. Then, when the fad for folk singing mushroomed in the late 1950s, everyone was suddenly stuck on the psaltery...
Married. Hal Holbrook, 41, the virtuoso one-man show in Off-Broadway's long-running (174 performances) Mark Twain Tonight!; and Carol Rossen, 28, aspiring actress, daughter of Hollywood's late Producer-Director Robert Rossen (The Hustler); he for the second time; in Manhattan...