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...themselves all too often in much of the reporting that poured in from around the country. Senior Editor Robert T. Zintl, 38, conceived the idea of commemorating the 40th birthday of the first wave of Baby Boomers, enabling TIME staffers to pull together the disparate elements of the Baby Boom experience, from Hula- Hoops to the Viet Nam War, from jogging to two-income families. Says Zintl: "To me, the central issue was how these 'aging children,' as Songwriter Joni Mitchell once called us, would at last face the responsibilities of being adults." The father of two teenage girls...
...took my time. I felt good." Moving up surely, going around some and about others, he made his last crucial pass through a needle's eye. "I saw a little spot, and decided to take a chance on getting through, saving a bit of ground. One, two, three, boom. I made...
...abortive Communist coup in 1965, Sukarno's power waned, and he was eased out of office two years later by Suharto, an army general. The conservative, strongly anti-Communist Suharto earned a reputation as "the father of development," resurrecting a faltering economy with the aid of the 1970s oil boom. The son of a farmer, Suharto helped increase agricultural production, finally enabling the nation to become self-sufficient in rice...
During the post-war prosperity of the 1940s and 1950s, New England suffered the highest unemployment levels in the country. The 40-year metamorphosis of New England's economy from an aging industrial region in decline to a leader in the information services boom remains unacknowledged, Hoy wrote in his report...
Winsten attributed the in-house selections to the past history of Biostatistics at Harvard. "They made a substantial number of high-quality appointments to the junior faculty about seven years ago. Now you're seeing the results," he said. "This is the baby-boom generation of the biostatistics department...