Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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1964. Voices were heard from university demonstra- tions beginning at Berkeley and underground presses began rolling. Television helped bring the Vietnam war into the consciences and into the living rooms of the country. Lyndon Johnson was elected to the presidency of the U. S. and Nikita Kruschev was deposed. The Supreme Court again was in the news with the Civil Rights Act. And mini-skirts set the fashion pace. 1965. The American mood darkened in the face of growing involvement in the Vietnam war. Teach-ins and draft-card burnings characterized the growing feelings of dissent. A long hot summer burned the country with race riots beginning in the Watts district of Los Angeles. Teacher professionalization and improved oppor- tunities for school children was provided for in the Elementary and Secondary Edu- cation Act. All areas of the military decided to get in on the act as thousands of troops moved in to quell the revolution in the Dominican Republic. Art turned op and religion became more and more secularistic. The Beatles were the top music makers and would be for another six years. HE MORE DEAD!

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1962. Pope John XXIII began to update and liberalize the Roman Catholic Church through the Vatican II Council. Americans joined in the race for space as John Glenn orbited the earth, and science claimed success. Horror set in when the danger of thalidomide on the unborn was discovered. Held-breath and taut nerves characterized the stare-down between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cuban missile crisis in the fall of the year. And the new pop art drew general public acclaim. 1963. The Supreme Court dominated the news with its decision to outlaw compulsory prayer and Bible-readings in public schools. Abroad, the United States, Britain, and Russia signed an agreement to ban nuclear testing in the atmosphere. At home, the first of the giant civil rights marches took place. Pope Paul VI was elected. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas; his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was murdered before millions of television viewers. Instant replay devices put a new slant into sports viewing.

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kr w 1966. Culture, culture everywhere . . . Timothy Leary ' s followers tuned in, turned on, dropped out, while Mao Tse Tung ' s Cultural Revolution swept his country. People discussed far and wide aspects of the New Morality and the Head Start program began its work for the culturally deprived. While De Gaulle turned in France ' s membership in NATO, Stokely Carmichael called forth the Black Power Movement in America. Medicare and medicaid were the legislative issues of the year. 1967 . Massive anti-war marches expressed the discontent of a large portion of the American population. War reigned elsewhere. Arabs and Israelis fought the Six Day War, and Biafra seceded from Nigeria, thus beginning their civil war. Television networks went to total color and the world marveled over the first human heart transplant. Several large U. S. cities elected Negro mayors and the Supreme Court received its first black justice.