Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where visitors build geodesic domes out of bamboo, lift weights on pulleys or take car engines apart. CID is a museum for children, ages four through 14, the latest entry in an expanding field. "What's important is participation," explains Doris Whitmore, president of the American Association of Youth Museums. "Without a hands-on approach, it's a dead museum...
...life divorce, recreational nudity and "Sunshine" LSD were all tolerated in the land of the topless shoeshine. Rock songs advertised the state (Fun, Fun, Fun) and its people (Eight Miles High). Thousands of teen-agers headed west and were hailed by older Californians seeking a formula for perpetual youth. Together they began an inner-directed search for a separate reality. Some trekked into the desert looking for Castaneda's ephemeral brujo, Don Juan. Others sought to gain an identity through encounters in the Esalen Institute's steamy communal baths...
California's current mood does not greatly surprise its demographers. Having skewed its population by welcoming successive waves of youth, it is now suffering the "baby-boom doldrums" of a generation confronting its inevitable mortality. Sociologists view the despair as something that logically follows a period of growth, the end of heady promise. But they worry about the effects of a prolonged malaise. Observes University of California Sociologist Neil Smelser: "There is abundant evidence that California is presently in a state of psychological depression because of the hollow notion that things are running out. Californians believe the best...
...expected to eventually turn a comfortable profit-something that appeals more and more to the P.L.O.'s fiscal managers. The organization has put together what amounts to an estimated $60 million to $100 million investment portfolio; current holdings include ownership of two Beirut hotels, a 500-room youth hostelry under construction in Cairo, shares in shipyards, oil tankers and television stations abroad, as well as blue-chip holdings in U.S. companies that operate in the Middle East. Some of this money has even been used for the quiet purchase of land on the West Bank that local Palestinians might...
...center court by staving off challenges from impressive newcomers, but their confrontation Saturday was a tumultuous struggle between the world's best as Connors, 24, the tournament's top-seeded player, and Borg, ranked second, traded slashing ground strokes to the bitter end. Fittingly, it was youth that was served as Borg, cheered on by the British, whom Connors' manners had annoyed, was simply stronger in the final...