There are some who feel the chaos of 2017 helped make it the most forgettable 365 days in recent memory. But for me, it was just no comparison to 1968 — 12 months that brought us enough grief to fill ...
A year before the summer of the moon, it was the summer of the stars. In 1969, man walked on the moon; in 1968, baseball’s universe revolved around the men who walked on the mound. Fifty years later, ...
When the 1968 model year production began, the Ford Mustang was losing ground in sales to other pony car options from Chevrolet, Pontiac, AMC, and Plymouth. Worse still, the Blue Oval wasn’t on par ...
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In the newly released comedy “Godard Mon Amour,” Michel Hazanavicius’ playful flashback to France in the fateful year of 1968, a young Jean-Luc Godard (played by Louis Garrel) marches with an enormous ...
A trusted colleague and friend recently wondered if it is time, in this second consecutive season of dominant pitching, to lower the mound. No, it is not time to lower the mound. The last time Major ...
Once you’re past the front cover and title page of Richard Vinen’s 1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies, you’ll find that his term of art is 68: not 1968 (shuffling along in a long line after 1926, ...
In modern United States history, few years are remembered with such mixed emotion as 1968. The year began with the Tet Offensive and the Mai Lai Massacre in Vietnam, turning points in the conflict ...
The Detroit Tigers were playing for something more than a pennant as they embarked on the 1968 baseball season. Hundreds of homes destroyed. Thousands of stores looted and burned. That spring, the ...