30 Years Ago Today, Sally Ride Blasts Into Space & History
From a systems-engineering standpoint, it is easy to identify the point where Sally K. Ride began to leave the rest of the world behind. A flow chart of her life would show the crucial decision coming one day in 1977, when — as a 25-year-old astrophysicist winding up her doctoral work at Stanford University — she spotted an announcement in the campus newspaper about openings in the astronaut program, a career she had never even contemplated for herself. In what once would have been called an epiphany — but she herself would probably describe as a go/no-go decision node — she was up and out of the room before she had finished reading the notice, one of more than 1,000 women and nearly 7,000 men to apply for what would ultimately be the 35 slots in the astronaut class of 1978. Not everyone’s life resolves itself so neatly into yes- or-no decisions, taken in an instant and never looked back upon or regretted, but, if Sally Ride’s life proves anything, it is that the very smart are different from you and me.
Newsweek June 13, 1983
The Sexes And The 70’s
Anyone Remember This Cover? It Freaked The Hell Out Of This Editor As A Young Boy in 1971.
This Is SO VERY 1971
The Hippies- Where Are They Now?
“The record is my story,” Morissette says. “I think of the album as running over the different facets of my personality, one of them being my sexual self.
To isolate “You Oughta Know’ is a misrepresentation of the whole story. By no means is this record just a sexual angry record. That song wasn’t written for the sake of revenge, it was written for the sake of release. I’m actually a pretty rational, calm person.”
Jagged Little Pill was released 18 years ago today. Find out what Alanis Morissette had to say about the album in 1995.
“ALANIS MORISSETTE HAS GOT A mouth on her…”
Newsweek August 7, 1995
A Timely Anniversary: On This Day In 1971, The New York Times Begins Publishing The “Pentagon Papers”
It had never happened before in the long history of the Republic. The Nixon Administration moved last week to stop of America’s most influential newspapers from publishing excerpts from a top-secret history of U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam. The parts of the study that saw print suggested that Lyndon Johnson and his war counselors had covertly planned to escalate the war long in advance and had deceived both Congress and the public about their intentions.
Newsweek June 28, 1971
Hey, A Guy’s Gotta Set His Priorities, No?
Newsweek, 1967
We just posted our July 1970 cover story, “The Assault On Privacy.” It’s pretty timely, as you can probably guess!
