All posts tagged "1960s"
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13.6K7Arts and LeisureLeonard Nimoy Gets a Hand Up From JFK and EPP
In 1956, a 24-year-old taxicab driver named Leonard Nimoy got a call to pick up a Mr. Kennedy at the Bel-Air Hotel in...
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17.7K7Arts and LeisureThe Other Boston Tea Party, The Hippest Club in Town
Boston and Cambridge were centers of the Sixties counterculture, and from 1967-70 the other Boston Tea Party was the epicenter of the center....
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11.9K8MassachusettsA Month After Selma, Martin Luther King Marches on Boston
The word ‘freedom’ was very much in the air when 22-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr., settled into his St. Botolph Street apartment...
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10.9K12ConnecticutWilliam F. Buckley, Jr., The Merry Gladiator of the Right
William F. Buckley, Jr., for decades skewered liberals with such charm and merriment that most of them ended up liking him. Some...
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7.6K1Arts and LeisureRay Conniff Puts the Muzak in Music
Somewhere My Love, a romantic ballad also known as Lara’s Theme, was an enormous hit in 1966 for Attleboro, Mass., native Ray...
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11.1K4Flashback PhotosVermont’s Great 1927 Flood
The Great 1927 Flood was easily the worst in the Vermont’s history. Torrential tropical rains of up to 9 inches from November...
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