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Novelist E.L. Doctorow, one of the speakers at the NYU rally, compared the Starr investigation to the McCarthyism of the 1950s...
...livestock, boils on people and beasts, hail, locusts and "a darkness that can be touched." Scientific skeptics have assigned them myriad natural explanations, including a comet and a volcanic eruption on the Mediterranean island of Santorini. The most ingenious effort is an ecological domino theory proposed in the 1950s by a scholar named Greta Hort: the Nile's many tributaries flood, infesting the great river with blood-red soil from the high plateaus and reddish micro-organisms usually confined to up-country lakes. These micro-organisms poison the fish, whose rotting bodies pollute the frogs' habitats, forcing them...
Bigger wasn't only better during the 1950s and '60s, bigger was best. The Cadillac Coupe de Ville was as long as a city block, with tail fins extending to the suburbs. Elvis had big hair, the Beatles came along with even bigger hair, and the Jackson Five arrived with stupendously massive hair...
...1950s and '60s, TIME lionized the Capitalist as Hero in a flock of fact-packed if somewhat breathless cover stories. They were rather typical of the uncritical coverage in this age of conformity and steady growth. The 1955 Man of the Year was General Motors' central-casting CEO Harlow Curtice (he was Hollywood-handsome, tungsten-tough, up-from-the-bottom, etc.); that year, GM also topped FORTUNE's first 500 list. TIME created a sensation by spotlighting the little-known Jean Paul Getty as the world's richest private citizen...
...1950s The U.S. and the dollar reign supreme. The boomer economy fuels construction of homes, schools and highways. e bad news. mutual assured destruction...