Questions tagged [1960s]
Refering to the period of 1960 A.D to 1969 A.D in the Gregorian calendar.
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US agencies phone numbers in the 1960s-1970s
For those who have a memory of it, I would like to understand the structure of the numbering plans and phone numbers of US agencies in the 1960s-1970s.
In an old congressional phonebook from 1971
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What is the first (black,red,yellow) flag on this poster?
In the poster below (dated around 1960), I can identify all flags except the very first one. It is a tricolor flag with vertical stripes, being black, red and yellow/gold from left to right. ...
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Are there any first-person subjective reports from individuals exposed to Agent BZ?
Agent BZ is a chemical weapon explored by the US military which induces overwhelming hallucinogenic states.
While there's a fair amount of data on the history of this subjects and the rough ...
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Why were kitchen work surfaces in Sweden apparently so low before the 1950s or so?
Watching old "newsreel"-like films from the 1950s and 1960s, and seeing this in old comics and from other Swedish sources, I have formed the perception that many/most/all kitchens in Sweden, ...
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When did "JFK" become a recognizable initialism for John F. Kennedy?
I assume that by the time he ran for President in 1960, every newspaper reader would have recognized the initialism "JFK" as a reference to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. But what about in 1957, ...
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Who was the PAF aviator nicknamed as "8-Pass Charlie" by IAF in Indo-Pakistan 1965 War?
Indian Airforce veterans who were posted at Adampur IAF airbase make special note of the aviator nicknamed '8-pass Charlie'. He was supposedly given the epithet by the Indians who were apparently ...
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Were hippies in the USA "refused ambulance service" for some reason?
In one episode of The Simpsons, Homer buys an old ambulance from the 1960s (I think). This is very vague in my memory, but at some point, somebody says something along the lines of:
Many hippies were ...
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Was there a well-known controversy about homosexuality in the U.S. State Department in the late 1960's?
In 1969, a film called Don't Drink the Water was released. It was based on a play by Woody Allen, and Woody remade it in 1994. In the 1969 version, an American family called the Hollanders is touring ...
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Did Robert F. Kennedy call Police Review boards a "sinister movement against law enforcement" in the 1960's?
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On multiple Fraternal Order of Police websites, they state that Robert F. Kennedy was opposed to Police Review boards and called them a "sinister movement against law enforcement" ...
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Did teenagers in the USA in the 1960s and 1950s really engage in dangerous, reckless driving to this extent?
My general perception of the 1960s in the USA, and possibly also the late 1950s, other than "drugs and hippies", is that the youth constantly was driving around in their cars, racing, daring and ...
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What does this 1960 West German political cartoon mean?
I have recently seen a [caricature][1] in which a blindfolded man goes along a cliff. The caption was "The German citizen in the 1960's". I thought it may have something to do with the economy, but in ...
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Why did Robert F. Kennedy loathe Lyndon B. Johnson?
Robert Kennedy despised Lyndon Johnson but it's not clear to me why.
Johnson was a dutiful vice-president and honored JFK's legacy by passing the civil rights act that Kennedy would likely have been ...
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Strong movement to deregulate professions in the 1960's?
In chapter 11, page 209, of his book "predictably irrational", Dan Ariely writes:
"The word profession comes from the Latin professus, meaning "affirmed
publicly." Professions started somewhere ...
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Was California's request for a Mexico border fence from the Pacific Ocean to the Colorado River acted upon?
In the 1965 California legislative session, a joint resolution (chapter 132, No. 44) was passed imploring the president and congress to build an:
animal-proof fence from the Pacific Ocean to the ...
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Border crossings between USSR and Afghanistan in the 1960s
For a (fictional, but set in the real world) story set in 1962, I need to get my protagonists from the USSR into Afghanistan. I've done some research and found no reliable information about the ...
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