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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year, we felt powerful, that we could do anything. We marched on the Pentagon in October, and I remember the sky sulphurous with the smell of teargas and smoke in the air. In March the President was deposed and the war was over (something about no bombing of North Vietnam). People worked for McCarthy, who lost by only a little in New Hampshire but by a lot in the Democratic convention. Still, it was wonderful to feel that you could get things done. And in May there was Columbia. Earlier, we sat in against a Dow Chemical Company recruiter...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: A History of Our Class | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

Smith has also received generous aid from South Africa, even though his regime's blatant march toward apartheid is something of an embarrassment to Pretoria and its "outward-looking" foreign policy of making friends with its African neighbors. The embarrassment is likely to increase as Rhodesia makes use of the constitution's possibilities for repressive laws. Sooner or later, those laws are likely to be needed. South Africans are outnumbered by Africans only 4 to 1. White Rhodesians have set themselves the task of staying on top in a country where they are a minority by a ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhodesia: Final Break | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...sound. That's not bad. San Francisco-based Creedence is riding the crest of today's strongest pop wave-blues-oriented rock. The group's first single, Susie Q., rose to No. 11 on the Billboard charts last fall. Proud Mary was hit No. 2 in March, and the group's latest single, Bad Moon Rising, rose this week from No. 3 to No. 2. At recent concert dates, Creedence has been packing the crowds in with its lean, masculine sound, impeccable instrumental style and express-track delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: Lean, Clean and Bluesy | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...consultants" and allowed to dress in sport clothes like the other participants. Savvy and blunt, they provided another bit of vivid evidence that in most prisons society is wasting time and money on a system that is self-righteous, vindictive and ultimately ineffective (TIME Essay, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisons: Jungle Rats | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...often trivializes history by reducing it, for example, to a matter of Chamberlain's gout or Hitler's bad breath. He also overplays that luxury sport of historians, the what-if game: "If a certain Virgil Tilea hadn't had a large and stimulating lunch on March 16, 1939, Britain and France might not have been at war with Germany on September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fate as Choice | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

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