The Sixties in the News

William J. Ryczek is a finance professional from Wallingford, Connecticut, who writes about early baseball, football, the Yankees and the Mets.

Table of Contents


Introduction

1. Thus Spoke Nostradamus: How Well Did Experts Predict

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Tomorrow’s World: 20-Hour Week, Factories Manned by Robots, New York

Herald-Tribune, October 9, 1961 6 delete• deleteA Forecast of Economic Growth in the United States, New York Times, September 8, 1963 7 delete• deleteEnd of Hunger in U.S. in 3 Years Envisioned, Bridgeport Post-Telegram, January 1, 1970 9 delete• deleteCollege Freshmen Travel in Time, Hartford Courant, September 19, 1971 12 delete• deleteYoung Entrepreneur Plans Data College, Hartford Courant, February 1, 1972 13

2. Where Are They Now? Figures from the Past

Reputed Last Civil War Veteran Dies in Texas After Long Illness, New York Times, December 20, 1959 16 delete• deleteEdith Piaf Dead; Cocteau Hears It, Dies, New York Daily News, October 12, 1963 19 delete• deleteSilent Film Star Found Penniless in St.

Louis, Hartford Courant, February 22, 1964 21 delete• deleteAlan Freed, Disk Jockey,

Dead; Popularized Rock ’n’ Roll Music, New York Times, January 21, 1965 23 delete• delete

Father Divine, Cult Leader, Dies; May Have Been 100, New York Daily News,

September 11, 1965 29 delete• delete“Playboy” Manville Dies; Wed 11 Times, Hartford

Courant, October 9, 1967 33 delete• deleteJames Roosevelt Stabbed During Family

Quarrel, Bridgeport Post and Telegram, May 16, 1969 39 delete• deleteWillie Sutton Is Freed After 17 Years in Prison, New York Times, December 25, 1969 41 delete• delete

Untitled, Hartford Courant, November 13, 1971 46 delete• deleteFDR Son Accused of Murder Plot; Elliott Denies It, Bridgeport Post-Telegram, September 18, 1973 47

3. Where Were They Then? Those Who Later Became Famous

Prince’s Nip in a Pub May Bring a Caning, New York Times, June 20, 1963 52 delete• delete

Books of the Times; Young Bohemians—Canadian Style, New York Times,

September 12, 1963 54 delete• deleteNew-Found Stardom Worries Dustin Hoffman, New

York Times, December 30, 1967 56 delete• deleteMitt Romney Marries Ann Davies, New York Times, March 22, 1969 57 delete• deletePeanut Farmer Wins Democratic Runoff in Georgia, Bridgeport Post-Telegram, September 24, 1970 60

4. The Times They Are a Changin’: Culture Shock of the 1960s

2 Professors Lose Bias Suit Appeal, New York Times, December 31, 1962 64 delete• delete

Tough “Hoss” Manucy Has Solution for St. Augustine: Fire Negro Help, Hartford Courant, June 30, 1964 66 delete• deleteConnecticut Boy Loses Appeal to Wear Beatle Bangs to School, New York Times, December 16, 1964 69 delete• delete“Georgie Porgie” Sings, Hartford Courant, December 9, 1965 72 delete• delete‘Rebel Priest’ Urges Fellows to Form Labor Union, Hartford Courant, February 23, 1966 75 delete• deleteMeredith

Injured While on March, Hartford Courant, June 6, 1966 78 delete• deleteCurves Have Their Day in Park; 500 at a “Fat-in” Call for Obesity, New York Times, June 5, 1967 

80 delete• deleteCoed Disciplined by College Becomes Dropout at Barnard, New York Times, September 4, 1968 82 delete• deleteWriter Changes Sex; Will Wed Negro Man, Bridgeport Post-Telegram, November 21, 1968 84 delete• deleteThe Name of Model

Agency That They Work for Is Ugly, New York Times, March 7, 1969 89 delete• delete

Bishop Pike: A Life Marked by Turmoil and Drama, New York Times, September 7, 1969 90 delete• deleteYoung Pair Take Lives as Protest Against the War, New York Daily News, October 17, 1969 94 delete• deleteSketches of 4 Seized as Bombing Suspects, New

York Times, November 14, 1969 99 delete• deleteYoung Millionaire Brody’s Checks Not

Covered by Cash in Bank, Bridgeport Post-Telegram, January 19, 1970 106 delete• delete

Hairy Youths Have Right to Jobless Pay, Hartford Courant, May 28, 1970 110 delete• delete

Vatican Asking All Priests to Affirm Celibacy Yearly, New York Times, February 10, 1970 111 delete• deleteDisappointed, Hartford Courant, January 19, 1971 113 delete• deleteLong Hair is Sign of a Sissy, Hartford Courant, May 22, 1973 114

5. Social Issues: Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll

Nudie Films—All the Time Volleyball, New York Herald Tribune, Early 1960s, Date Unknown 116 delete• deleteGrowth of Overt Homosexuality in City Provokes Wide

Concern, New York Times, December 17, 1963 117 delete• deleteNarcotics a Growing Problem of Affluent Youth, New York Times, January 4, 1965 120 delete• deleteFolk Singer Loses; Shoots Self Dead, Bridgeport Telegram, January 28, 1967 122 delete• deleteNude Model Placed on Probation, Bridgeport Post-Telegram, February 15, 1967 124 delete• delete

Nude Model Leaves College Voluntarily, Bridgeport Post-Telegram, March 23, 1967 125 delete• deleteScreen: “The Trip” on View at 2 Houses, New York Times, August

24, 1967 127 delete• deleteThe See-Through Look, New York Times, April 24, 1968 129 delete• delete

Nudity Moves into Center Stage, New York Times, April 25, 1968 130 delete• delete

Topless Dancer Runs for Stanford Student Body President, Hartford Courant, May 1, 1968 131 delete• deleteMiss Moorman in Football Togs Plays in “Mixed Media Opera,”

New York Times, June 11, 1968 134 delete• deleteActresses Talk About Onstage Nudity, New York Times, February 17, 1969 135 delete• deleteArt Linkletter Says Daughter Died on LSD, New York Daily News, October 6, 1969 137 delete• deleteAddict, 12, Found After 3-Day Spree, New York Times, January 29, 1970 139 delete• deleteEx-Staples Honor

Student Nabbed in N.Y. Drug Haul, Bridgeport Post-Telegram, May 23, 1970 

141 delete• deleteGay Liberation, Hartford Courant, October 22, 1970 143 delete• deleteDrill for GI Junkies: A Nauseating Shoot-Up, Hartford Courant, November 14, 1970 144 delete• delete

73-Year-Old Pot User Asks Legalization of Marijuana, Hartford Courant, October 15, 1971 146

6. As Long as We Both Shall Love: The Evolution of Marriage

Reno Ranches: Divorce Havens for Rich, New York Times, October 28, 1963 

149 delete• deleteNude Newswoman Covers Wedding in Nudist Camp, Hartford

Courant, May 11, 1964 151 delete• deleteAndy Williams Tells How to Stay Married,

Hartford Courant, February 13, 1967 153 delete• deleteBroker’s Estranged Family Pickets Dad at Exchange, New York Daily News, March 30, 1967 155 delete• deleteFive Women Protest the “Slavery” of Marriage, New York Times, September 24, 1969 

158 delete• deleteFired for Living Out of Wedlock, Clerk Sues, Middletown Press, January 7, 1970 160 delete• deleteCouples Share Rent, Chores (and Sex), Hartford Courant,

August 2, 1970 161 delete• delete“Do Your Own Thing” Concept Starts Marriage

“Vibrating,” Hartford Courant, February 12, 1971 164 delete• delete$1 Million in Dispute in Bigamist’s Estate, Bridgeport Post-Telegram, December 5, 1971 165 delete• deleteJane Fonda, Tom Hayden Wed in Free-Form Rite, Bridgeport Telegram, January 22, 1973 168

7. You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Women in the 1960s

The Lonely Turn to Public Dances, New York Times, November 19, 1963 172 delete• delete

Women Made to Help Men, Hartford Courant, February 16, 1965 174 delete• deleteTeen Girls Ask Hints on How to Win Boys, New York Daily News, Early 1960s, Date Unknown 174 delete• deleteDean of Women Handles Male Students’ Problems, Hartford

Courant, June 15, 1965 175 delete• deleteMeter Girls Have It Maid Again After New Shape-up, New York Daily News, September 9, 1965 177 delete• deleteMost Beautiful By-Line, Newsday, September 25, 1965 178 delete• deleteBill Allowing Women at Bars Gets Favorable Report from House, Hartford Courant, May 23, 1967 180 delete• deleteMiss Shape, Hartford Courant, October 16, 1967 181 delete• deleteIf She’s a Doctor or a Lawyer, Men Seem Wary, New York Times, June 13, 1969 182 delete• deleteSvelte Blonde Is

Commercial Pilot, New York Times, February 16, 1970 183 delete• deleteSophia Loren Kisses off WLM (Women’s Liberation Movement), The Bridgeport Post, September 25, 1970 185 delete• deleteDescendant of Grant Scoffs Lib, Hartford Courant, October 11, 1970 185 delete• deleteLiberation Shunned by Women, Hartford Courant, February 11, 1971 187 delete• deleteGals—Here’s Check List; How Do You Measure Up?, Hartford Courant, October 19, 1969 189

8. Mad Dogs and Skyjackers: Crime Keeps Up with the Times190 delete

Blackmailed for Love & 56G by Father of 8 Babies She Slew, New York Daily News, October 9, 1962 190 delete• deleteHad Night Job: Burglary, New York Daily News,

December 31, 1962 192 delete• deleteSlaying Ends a Happy Triangle, New York Daily News, October 1963 193 delete• deletePublic Flogging Seems Near an End in Delaware, New York Times, February 2, 1964 195 delete• deleteSinatra Witness Tells of Plot Tip, New York Times, February 25, 1964 198 delete• deleteMan Sets Up Guillotine to Kill Wife, The

Morning Record (Meriden, CT), October 14, 1965 202 delete• delete500G Bank Suspect Caught in Vegas, New York Daily News, April 1, 1967 203 delete• deleteWarhol Gravely

Wounded in Studio; Actress is Held, New York Times, June 4, 1968 205 delete• delete

Italian Factions Back Minchiello; Extradition Proceedings Started to Gain

Custody of Minichiello, New York Times, November 3, 1969 209 delete• deleteHijacker Tells of Cuban Imprisonment, New York Times, November 3, 1969 211 delete• delete

Cockpit Gun Battle Climaxes $100 Million Skyjack Thriller, Bridgeport Post-

Telegram, June 5, 1970 215 delete• deleteOldest Convict, Hartford Courant, October 30, 1970 217 delete• deletePolice Kill TV Assailant in Toronto, Hartford Courant, December 15, 1970 218 delete• deleteHijacker Gives Up at Argentine Field, Hartford Courant,

August 5, 1971 221 delete• deleteBingham’s Mother Waiting for Word, Hartford Courant, August 24, 1971 224 delete• deleteTexas Ranger Kills Gangster from Bonnie and Clyde Era, Bridgeport Post-Telegram, October 15, 1971 229 delete• deleteTax Agents Walk Nude in Memphis, Bridgeport Post-Telegram, June 16, 1972 230

9. It’s All About the War: Politics in the Vietnam Era

The Klansman, Unknown New York Newspaper, October 16, 1960 233 delete• delete

Sen. Goldwater Asks: Must Public Subsidize Shirkers, Illegitimacy? New York

Herald Tribune, Date Unknown 234 delete• deletePoverty Program Now Faces Big Test, New York Times, August 16, 1964 236 delete• deleteThe U.S. in Vietnam: Why It Is There, New York Times, February 12, 1965 240 delete• deleteAgnew Says “Effete Snobs” Incited War Moratorium, New York Times, October 20, 1969 243 delete• deletePresident Proud to Have Agnew in Administration, New York Times, October 31, 1969 244 delete• deleteText of President Nixon’s Address to Nation on U.S. Policy in the War in Vietnam, New York Times, November 4, 1969 246 delete• deleteAgnew Says TV Networks Are Distorting

the News, New York Times, November 14, 1969 251 delete• delete3 Networks Reply

Agnew Attack, New York Times, November 14, 1969 252 delete• deleteAgnew Becomes Duffer for a Day, New York Times, February 8, 1970 253 delete• deleteBrother Takes Role in War, Bridgeport Post-Telegram, May 18, 1971 255 delete• deletePresident’s Cousin Seeks Help, Hartford Courant, June 4, 1971 257

10. From Panty Raids to Anti-War Protests: Student Unrest

Negro Students Killed in Riots, Hartford Courant, February 9, 1968 261 delete• delete

Trinity Trustees Captive, Hartford Courant, April 23, 1968 263 delete• deleteTrinity Strike Ends in Accord, Hartford Courant, April 25, 1968 265 delete• deleteStudent Anti-War Strike Urged, Hartford Courant, April 25, 1968 266 delete• deleteWesleyan Thinks Things

Over, Hartford Courant, April 26, 1968 269 delete• deleteThe Negro Student at

Integrated College: His Problems, Attitudes and Goals, New York Times, June 3,

1968 270 delete• deleteStudent Protest Flares in Europe, New York Times, June 4, 1968 

272 delete• deleteTeen-Age Revolt: Is It Deeper Today Than in Past Generations?, New York Times, October 7, 1968 274 delete• deleteStudent Protest 1969: Less Concerned with War Than with Other Issues, New York Times, January 14, 1970 279

11. It’s All About Me

1,000 Antiwar Demonstrators Block Traffic; 6 Held in Sit-in, Hartford Courant, May 13, 1972 282 delete• deleteWatkin’s Glen: “The Ultimate Bummer,” Bridgeport Post-

Telegram, July 30, 1973 285

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Index