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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they'll whoop and holler with the best of them. But what happened last week was the wildest thing in Sultan's history since the 1884 visit of the Black Diamond Minstrel Company. By the thousands, strangers streamed into the tiny hamlet hard by the Skykomish (Big Sky) River, 48 miles northeast of Seattle. As the incredulous Sultanites watched, onward trooped hundreds of hippies, pseudo hippies, camp followers, hangers-on, even some ordinary-looking folks. Then came the musicians with the weird-sounding names and getups - Country Joe and the Fish, the Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, Frumious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: Up at Betty's Meadow | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

Sponsored chiefly by the U.S., the four-year-old International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium (Intelsat) has four satellites in the sky, links 62 nations around the globe and is considered a highly successful outpost of free enterprise in space. It is so successful, in fact, that Russia has decided to bid for a piece of the action. It is now planning its own global space-communications network, Intersputnik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communications: Enter Intersputnik | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...rather than a force. His efforts to reorganize Congress have largely gone by the board. He is chairman of the Senate's Post Of fice and Civil Service Committee and is known as "Mr. Aviation" because of his continued-and unheeded-warn ings about America's crowded sky. Intelligent and hardworking, he is the quiet antithesis of Oklahoma's flamboyant king of the Senate, the late Bob Kerr. Yet back in the Sooner State, it was Kerr who took the stump to save Monroney's 1962 re-election bid. Now Kerr is gone, and his legacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oklahoma: Lament of the Senior Sooner | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

Blustering God, Stamping across the sky With loud swagger, I fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Man in a Hurry | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

Plants spring up from pictures. Shells resound with strange and vibrant organ music. Paper sea gulls take flight across a cloudless sky. When the young voyagers peer through holes in the map they spy black and white children from other lands and entice them to walk and bicycle across the water to the seventh continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Seventh Continent | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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