Word: 60s
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...trains, as the saying goes, are running on time at Harvard these days. But between the lines of the well-ordered schedules, behind the complacency, lie problems as serious as those in the '60s. Some of them are less strikingly visible than their predecessors, but all cry out for solution today, not after they have become acute dangers to the University's day-to-day life. A single thread ties them all together: the University's aversion to public responsibility, whether it be to South Africans and others affected by its investments, to residents of the community it dominates...
...almost 200 black mayors holding office in U.S. cities. Among them: Washington, Los Angeles, Atlanta. Some police forces have wisely hired more black officers. In Detroit, which also has a 'black mayor, fully 40% of the force is black, compared with a mere 6% in the late '60s. (By contrast, only 106 of Dade County's 1,501-member force are black.) Yet even in Detroit, Mayor Coleman Young says of racial violence in his city: "The threat is real. The unrest is real...
Founded in 1924, Saturday Review flourished in the '50s and '60s as a staid journal of politics and literature under longtime Editor Norman Cousins. In 1971 it was sold to entrepreneurs Nicolas Charney and John Veronis, who turned the magazine into four separate monthlies on arts, education, science and society. The new format was confusing to readers and financially ruinous. Saturday Review went bankrupt in 1973, and Cousins came to the rescue. He ran it for the next four years and converted it to a fortnightly. Under Tucker, the magazine added more reportage and brighter graphics...
They were the scourge of the '60s, members of a minor, mean-spirited motorcycle club, raised through their own viciousness and the fascination of the press to the status of ravening Huns. For the past seven months a clutch of Hell's Angels has been on trial in San Francisco's Federal Building, accused of having spent the '70s conspiring to be racketeers. The proceedings are known officially as The United States of America vs. Ralph Barger...
...says. The Barger house, described by the press as "an armed camp," is a five-room bungalow. Sharon's biggest mistake seems to have been an abiding loyalty to her husband, the legendary Sonny Barger. Sonny, now 41, led the Angels through the glory days of the '60s: fighting in bars, terrorizing small towns, dropping acid with Ken Kesey, assaulting antiwar demonstrators. He was their leader during the Altamont rock concert killing. Sonny spent four years of the '70s in prison on a drug conviction and is the star defendant of the current case. "My Sonny...