Excellent condition or better.
60TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE
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What Really Mattered? Six dec-
ades of speeches, treaties, trends,
books, bombs, pills, screams and
rockets-what will have mat-
tered in the long run? Will peni-
cillin prove to have affected
more lives than World War II
A look at why, among the many
major news stories of the past 60
years, some have proved to be
more indelible than others.
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War and Peace. Five decisive.
1945:
moments of conflict. 1939:
Hitler invades Poland, unleash-
ing World War II. 1941: Ja-
pan attacks Pearl Harbor and
the U.S. declares war.
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
ends the fighting, opens nuclear
age.1950: Chinese widen
Korean War. 1968: Ter
offensive staggers Viet Nam
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This Turbulent World. People's
struggles to change their lives.
1930: India's Gandhi begins
civil disobedience to win inde-
pendence. 1949: Commu-
nists conquer China. 1956:
Hungarians rebel: Soviets crush
them.1962: Kennedy forces
Khrushchev to remove missiles
from Cuba. 1974: Watergate
ends with Nixon's resignation.
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Triumphs of the Spirit. Some
good news. 1927: Lindbergh
shows that a man alone can con
quer an ocean, captivate a
world. 1948: After 2,000
years of exile, the Jews regain a
home. 1963: Blacks march
for their rights. 1965: The
Vatican Council opens up the
Catholic Church.
1977:
Women organize a new future.
TIME
5 Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
COVER KEY: Top Row, 1923-1932: Joseph G. Casson.
Sigmund Freud. Thomas A. Edison. Arturo Toscanini. Leon D
Trotsky, Charles Lindbergh (Man of the Yeari. J. Pierpont Mor
gan. Al Capone, Mahatma Gandhi (Mas of the Years. Sen Huey P
Long Second Row, 1933-1942: Joseph Goebbels James
Joyce Henry Ford Marlene Dietrich, Dionne Quintuplets Neville
Chamberlain Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hideki
Ton General MacArthur Third Row, 1943-1952: Benito
Mulini. General Eisenhower. Adolf Hider. Albert Einstein,
Jackie Robinson, David Ben Gurion, Jawaharlal Nehru Harry S
Truman Groucho Mars Queen Elizabeth II Fourth Rew,
THE WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE
9 Letters 158 People
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M
The Wealth of Nations. For
richer or poorer. 1923: Infla-
tion ravages Germany, paves
the way for political disaster.
1929: The N.Y. stock mar-
ket crash begins the Depression.
1933: FDR launches the
New Deal 1947: The Mar-
shall Plan rebuilds postwar Eu-
rope. 1973: Arab oil embar-
go sends energy prices soaring.
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Art and Its Rewards. Some cre-
alors who made news that
stayed news 1931: Charlie
Chaplin's latest film, City
Lights 1937-Ernest Hem-
ingway's new novel, To Have
and Have Not. 1938: Frank
Lloyd Wright plans a number of
important buildings. 1967:
The triumphant Beatles.
1980: The prolific Picasso.
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Frontiers of Science. To the un-
known and beyond. 1944:
Penicillin goes on the market.
1955: Jonas Salk's vaccine
promises to eliminate crippling
polio. 1969: Neil Armstrong
takes man's first walk on the
moon. 1971: Solving the rid-
dle of DNA may enable scientists
to change the human body.
1982: Year of the computer.
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And Here Comes 1984. Look-
ing ahead to 1984, George Or-
well portrayed a grim future of
"newspeak" and "doublethink,"
but now that his future is about
to become our present, where
do we stand? Some hopeful
thoughts on utopias, past and
present, and a suggestion that
even doublethink may turn out to
possess some redeeming value.
1953-1962: Joseph Stalin, Joe
IME TIME TIME Marilyn Monroe, Hungarian Patriot (Man of the Year). Mao Tse-
tung Fidel Castro John F. Kennedy Nikita Khrushchev, The Ber-
lie Wall Fifth Row, 1963-1972: Pope John XXIII (Man of the
Year, Martin Luther King Jr. (Man of the Year, Lyndon B. Joh
son. Is God Dead, The Beatles Robert F. Kennedy. Nell Arm-
son Is God Dead. Then Papers, Leonid Bre
Neil Arm
strong The Arab Guerrillas The Pentagon Papers, Leonid Bre
nev Bottom Row, 1973-1982: President Nixon, Leadership
Viet Nam Carter. Rengan & Ford, Women's Politics, Anwar Sa
dat Khomeini and Carter, Mount St. Helens. Reagan Shot. The
Computer Moves In (Machine of the Year
Covers hidden by type: McCarthy, Chiang, MM
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