Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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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.

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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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1968. The Tet offensive in Vietnam began a new phase of the war as peace talks struggled along in Paris. The country mourned two assassinations — Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. Pope Paul ' s ban on artificial birth control produced controversy and split in the Roman church. The Broadway showing of Hair rocked the entertainment world. Hi-jacking planes to Cuba became an everyday occurrence. Czechoslovakia ' s move toward liberalism served as an excuse for invasion by Soviet and Eastern Bloc troops. President Johnson an- nounced his decision not to run for re-election and Richard Nixon was elected to the presidency in November. 1969. A changing of the guard everywhere: Charles De Gaulle announced his resignation and Prince Charles became Prince of Wales. Catholics and Protestants fought in northern Ireland. In the U. S., the Supreme Court began ordering desegregation and stiff drug laws were called into question. Spiro Agnew called networks for their news coverage. Music festivals, such as Wood- stock, brought thousands of young people together for days at a time. Inflation 10