Word: saigon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sequitur: with two hot-to-trot Republicans (Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller) breathing down their necks in 1964, Granite State voters gave an easy victory to Henry Cabot Lodge, then U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, of all places, conducting a long-distance (10,000 miles) write-in campaign from Saigon...
...Joseph Epstein, editor of the American Scholar, "a few things ought to be said on behalf of the 1970s -not least among them that they weren't the 1960s." But for a number of years the 1970s were the 1960s-at least until, say, the fall of Saigon in the spring of 1975. The '60s, which are often said to have begun on Nov. 22, 1963, lingered messily into the '70s, through Kent State, the Pentagon papers case, the McGovern campaign, the long, slow-motion parallel collapses of the Nixon presidency and the South Vietnamese Republic...
...following pages TIME presents the decade's memorable moments and fancied faces. The collection ranges from the triumph of the Bicentennial to the debacle of Saigon; from the grotesque suicides of Jonestown to the burlesgue success of Evil Knievel's Snake River plunge; and from the worst of Hearst to a terrific Tiegs...