Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That prissy wrap-up about see-through blouses "dulling the senses" [April 19] seems vaguely familiar. Hasn't that same broken record been grinding away ever since legs first emerged from the hobble skirt? In the time from flapper fringe to miniskirt, legs may indeed have lost their shock value, but a well-turned leg still turns heads. What short skirts have done for the leg man, see-through blouses may yet do for the more high-minded girl watcher...
...atmosphere of tranquillity. President Johnson went through the normal busy week-a state dinner for Norway's King Olav, a jet excursion to Illinois, the appointment of a new ambassador to the U.N. But something was missing, some factor had disappeared from the unique Johnsonian equation. Both the shock and euphoria that followed the President's March 31 abdication speech had disappeared, and the Johnson Administration was slowly, inexorably winding down toward its self-set demise on January...
...below the Nevada desert last week, the AEC tested a one-megaton hydrogen device, the largest ever exploded in the U.S. Despite earlier protests from scientists, labor leaders and Howard Hughes, who had feared earthquakes, major property damage and vented radiation, the blast produced only a harmless ground shock and a rock-filled underground cavity similar to that created by the AEC's Project Gas-buggy (TIME...
...serious, discontented, left-leaning people on this campus who, while they stay out of the statement-making and infighting of daily political affairs, muster their personal commitment in the clutch to go so far as to do something illegal for the cause. Someone in SDS once called them their "shock troops...
...Lehman Hall together--not exclusively, but usually. If SDS people don't mix much with the liberal activists and get their message out that way, it is because the two are motivated by almost completely different goals. The SDS activists have made social concerns their lives. But their liberal "shock troops" have not: these students perceive their own estrangement from the government as temporary and without real significance to their private lives...