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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UPUNTIL about twenty-five years ago man couldn't have brought about the end of the world even if he wanted to. After we invented and then stockpiled enough nuclear weapons, it became possible, but not likely. Since then, spreading technology has made us liable to extinction unpredictably, suddenly, and...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: All About the End of the World | 10/1/1969 | See Source »

Ill as a People. On the same day that Nixon appeared at the U.N., he was lashed by a familiar adversary. After brooding for nearly two months about the effect of his fatal Chappaquiddick Island accident on his credibility in raising a moral issue, Senator Edward Kennedy converted a routine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: VIET NAM: TRYING TO BUY TIME | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

Federal pressure could go a long way toward forcing recalcitrant unions to accept minorities. One helpful step would be abolition of construction-union hiring halls, if not by agreement with employers then by legislative fiat. Through various covert devices of favoritism in the hiring halls, many local officials prevent Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: WHAT UNIONS ARE-AND ARE NOT-DOING FOR BLACKS | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

Beautiful Evening. Capitalist Bill Graham was born in 1931 to Russian parents who had moved to Berlin only a few years before. Two days after his birth, his father was killed in an accident. In order to be free to work, his mother eventually placed Wolfgang and his younger sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Impresarios: The Capitalist of Rock | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

Natalie (Shirley Knight) wakes one morning to a soot-gray New York dawn, turns away from her husband, stares at the ceiling, then makes a quick, silent decision. After a shower and a visit to her parents, she begins her odyssey. Calling her husband from a gas station on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Only Geography | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

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