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...Outside the U.S., the psychological impact of currency fluctuations is well known. The strength of the deutsche mark in the 1950s and '60s was a key component in West Germany's recovery of national confidence after World War II. Britons over age 60 were born into a world with four dollars to the pound and then lived through periods in the 1980s when there was near dollar-pound parity-which contributed to a pervasive sense of national decline. The strength of the yen in the bubble years of the late '80s convinced many that Japan had become "Number...
...Nothing like that has happened since the 1950s. The five two-term administrations before this one were all followed by an election in which the big man's Veep sought the presidency on his own-a kind of third term as well as an implicit referendum on the previous...
...still think $1,000 is too much to pay for a TV set, consider yourself spoiled. In the 1950s, when the cathode-ray tube was cutting edge, an average TV cost about $1,000, according to Semenza. Adjusted for inflation, that's $6,700 today?comparable to the most advanced flat-screen TVs. The advent of the flat TV is seen by an electronics industry accustomed to razor-thin margins as a chance to reap some fat profits from a new technology. Japan's Sharp Corp. announced this month that sales of LCD TVs contributed to pushing up profits...
...Lucky Pierre: A Real Pro Presidential press secretary Pierre Salinger [MILESTONES, Nov. 1] became acquainted with John F. Kennedy while working with Bobby Kennedy on a Senate subcommittee in the late 1950s. TIME described Salinger's role in the Kennedy Administration in an Oct. 16, 1964, report...
...this what it has all come to? The hand-in-hand walk into the sunset (or in this case, snowstorm) is an ending not out of place in a 1950s Doris Day vehicle. The only thing that’s changed is that we are now encouraged to make fun of our leading lady’s (not at all enormous) bottom. What about her career, and her friends, and her family? Do they exist only to fill in the gaps between...