Those quiet library types are men who secretly quest for passion.
From Guilford’s 1968 yearbook.
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Open Sesame! The stressful Gemini 8 mission comes to a close as astronauts David Scott & Neil Armstrong are attended to by 🇺🇸 Air Force Pararescuemen. Scott was to perform a 2 hour & 10 minute spacewalk on the mission, the first EVA since Ed White on Gemini 4. This never occurred due to an emergency in the spacecraft’s flight system which transpired shortly after docking with the Agena Target Vehicle. The pair were able to narrowly escape the perilous situation. Backup for the mission were Pete Conrad & Richard Gordon who went on to become the prime crew of Gemini 11.
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“She had a lot to live for, and I know she felt that way too.”
- George Barris
Photo by George Barris, 1962.27
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963).
35th president of the United States.
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He was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate prior to becoming president.
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During World War II, he commanded a series of PT boats in the Pacific theater and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his service. After the war, Kennedy represented the Massachusetts’s 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate and served as the junior Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. While in the Senate, Kennedy published his book Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize. In the 1960 presidential election, he narrowly defeated Republican opponent Richard Nixon, who was the incumbent vice president.
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Kennedy’s administration included high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam. In April 1961, he authorized an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Kennedy authorized the Cuban Project in November 1961. He rejected Operation Northwoods (plans for false flag attacks to gain approval for a war against Cuba) in March 1962. However, his administration continued to plan for an invasion of Cuba in the summer of 1962. The following October, U.S. spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba; the resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in the breakout of a global thermonuclear conflict. The Strategic Hamlet Program began in Vietnam during his presidency. Domestically, Kennedy presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps (over 200,000 Americans have joined, helping efforts in underdeveloped countries to fight famine and disease) and the continuation of the Apollo space program, and supported the Civil rights movement , but was only somewhat successful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies.
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On November 22, 1963, he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the state crime, but he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later. The FBI and the Warren Commission both concluded Oswald had acted alone in the assassination, but various groups contested the Warren Report and believed that Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy. After Kennedy’s death, Congress enacted many of his proposals, including the Civil Rights Act and the Revenue Act of 1964. His personal life has also been the focus of considerable sustained interest, following public revelations in the 1970s of his chronic health ailments and extramarital affairs.
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He was married to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier and had four children. He had numerous love affairs notably with actresses Gene Tierney, Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe.
In 1947, he was diagnosed with Addison’s disease. Kennedy also suffered from chronic and severe back pain, high fevers, stomach, colon, and prostate issues, abscesses, high cholesterol, and adrenal problems.
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Marilyn by George Barris on the set of The Seven Year Itch in September 1954.
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The 1960s and 1970s were a rough time in home decorating. The submitter of these monstrocities and I were chatting the other day about them, and I said my parents still have theirs in use – both of the end tables at either end of the livingroom couch have lamps similar to the one in the middle, but the globe is taller, so look more like the ones below (and these exact lampshades!) but with the above-style metal neck and no extra glass section at the top:
You’d think I’d have a photo from Christmas at my parents’ house over the last few years, and I might have one in a 110 snapshot from when I was a teenager (that’d take a lot of work to find), so picture in your mind…
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Ted Lapidus models presenting Ted Lapidus collection from the Winter Collection 1966 1967, Paris, France, September, 1966.⚡️
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