“The Angry Black Athlete”

High in the LA Coliseum stands, Tommie Smith stood in a huddle of friends.  Smith, the sprinter who holds ten world records, had just won a 200-meter dash that was one of the most important of his life.  A radioman thrust a long microphone toward him and began, “Tommy, you ran with real power out there…”  Call it black power” said Smith.  End of interview.

Newsweek  July 15, 1968

It’s Never A Bad Time To Celebrate STANLEY KUBRICK

Kubrick is reluctant to talk about the creative process or about why he makes his movies.  ”A better question might be ‘Why shouldn’t I make them?’” he says.  ”What else should I be doing?  The fact that I may be able to do them better than other people gives me an added pleasure.”

Newsweek  January 3, 1972

40 Years Ago In Newsweek History: The Great Meat Furor!

It was a homey scene. Standing in their warm kitchen on a winter’s day in 2001, Julie and Hillary Goodridge, a couple for 16 years, played the old Beatles song “All You Need Is Love” for their young daughter, Annie. Hillary asked Annie if she knew any people who loved each other. The little girl rattled off the names of her mothers’ married friends, heterosexuals all. “What about Mommy and Ma?” asked Hillary. “Well,” the child replied, “if you loved each other you’d get married.”

Newsweek  July 2, 2003

On This Date in 1964: The Most Powerful Earthquake In U.S. History

It was a shock heard round the world- a roaring, rumbling earthquake that wrought splintering havoc in southern Alaska, set deadly tidal waves raging down the western rim of the continent, and jarred seismograph needles off their tracks on the other side of the world.

Newsweek  April 6, 1964

The More Things Change…

This mad rush to medicate shows no sign of letup.  In these tense days, many citizens, awed by the miracle cures that drugs have wrought on some of the most feared diseases, often display a dependence on pills that amounts almost to mania.

Newsweek  June 16, 1958

  “I think men are beautiful.

I’ve always thought so.

  Even when they were unkind to me.”

Newsweek  1969