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Before Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and Al Franken, there was MORT SAHL, who revitalized stand-up comedy in the 1950s with his trenchant political wit. TIME joined the laughter in a 1960 cover story on the verge of an election...
...areas had a cultural coherence”—and, he adds, “Harvard still has this theory.” The government encouraged studying these regions from a Western point of view. However, since the anti-colonial movement took hold in the late 1950s and 1960s, many academics have revised the way they study other cultures. They have come to accept that the divisions between regions were not made along cultural borders and include different societies...
...Mary may look and sound like a 1950s television boy next door, all grins and simple declarative sentences, but his childhood was anything but all-American. Born in Saudi Arabia to a Peruvian mother and a South Arkansan father in the oil business, he attended high school in Dubai. His brief spates in the U.S.—to visit family in the south, or after being evacuated during the first Gulf War—didn’t do much to create roots. Maybe that’s why O’Mary took so well to the campaign...
Things have certainly become more complex since 1936, the year Sy left China for the Philippines to join his father, the proprietor of a tiny grocery store in Manila. In the 1950s Sy opened his own shop, selling shoes. He branched into department stores in the late 1950s and supermarkets in the 1970s. But his big breakout came in 1985, when he opened his first supermall in the Quezon City district of greater Manila, which was then practically undeveloped. The business community expected Sy to lose his (Hawaiian) shirt. Instead, his clean, air-conditioned venue introduced modern shopping...
...World War II, when many defense plants were repurposing, some turned to producing prefab wall systems--enameled-steel panels that not only were easy to clean but also allowed you to attach paintings to your walls with magnets. The Jetsons would have loved it. All the same, by the 1950s prefab was in decline. Mobile homes had emerged as the more popular low-cost alternative to stick-built housing. There are still dozens of modular-housing manufacturers in the U.S., but last year they produced just 36,000 of the more than 1.8 million new housing starts nationwide...