Word: mid-60s
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...most cruises, Neptune is king. On this voyage, Methuselah rules. The average age of the passengers is mid-60s, and when the handful of children and smattering of under-40s is out of sight-which is often-it seems even higher. Also, word leaked out that 31 would-be passengers, mostly elderly, died between the time they booked their cabins and the ship left its home port of Le Havre. (The vacancies were quickly filled.) As a result, the prevailing atmosphere is less glamorous than geratic...
After The Americans came out in 1959, Frank essentially quit taking photographs to make movies. That is, he continued taking some pictures into the mid-60s, but never again was the still camera to be his priority. "There should always be a struggle to come up with something new," said Frank. "You cannot repeat the old formulas. Perhaps I might take up still photography again, but only if I had something new to say. Eugene Smith, after all he went through, now takes pictures from his loft in New York City. They're really terrible pictures, you know. A shadow...
...Jackson would most emphatically disagree with Marshall's conviction that the Gospel prescribes revolution. Jackson, pastor of the big Olivet Baptist Church on Chicage's South Side and perennial president of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A., Inc. (he claims 6,000,000 members), is in his mid-60s. But there is more than a generation gap between him and Calvin Marshall. Jackson bitterly opposed Martin Luther King's civil-disobedience campaign, and has so vigorously quashed liberal opposition within his denomination that half a million members (including King) left in 1961 to form the Progressive National Baptist...
...always there, though too often it is forgotten; in the mid-60s the new presses in upon events with a force so strong that only the alert can grasp its significance. TIME'S continuing aim is to respect the old that is worthy of respect, to be interested in the new that is worthy of interest, and to relate them to one another in a way that sheds intelligent light on both...
...transaction was unknown to the thousands who decorated both banks and it probably didn't matter much. Amused by the bands and humor magazines of two colleges and warmed by a sun that sent the temperature to the mid-60s, the crowd had little trouble waiting out the hour-long postponement...