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On what they still called their “home screens,” Americans got to watch the future
January 11 Surgeon General Luther L. Terry
releases his report on cigarette smoking.
January 16 Hello, Dolly! opens at the St. James Theater in New York City. Read more >>
Viewing a transformation that still affects all of us—through the prism of a single year
It has been called the “burned-over decade,” a “dream and a nightmare,” the “definitive end of the Dark Ages, and the beginning of a more hopeful and democratic period” in American history. Read more >>