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• Civil rights-era lawyer for Bond, Ali dies
A native of Birmingham who fought that city's segregationist leaders in the early 1960s, Morgan opened the American Civil Liberties Union's Southern Regional office in Atlanta in 1964 and became legislative director of the ACLU's national office in ...
• Brown pelicans dying from Bay Area to Baja
Its habitat stretches from Mexico's Sinaloa and Nayarit coasts to the Channel Islands off Southern California. Brown pelicans nearly became extinct in the 1960s and 1970s because the pesticide DDT infiltrated their food. The species started to recover ...
• Superman's planet is racially diverse — finally
The gradual recognition of all races and ethnicities across all of pop culture, comics included, really didn't start to blossom until the late 1960s. Yes, Superman was weirdly late to that party — the first African-American even in a Superman story ...
• Social Security unveils new online application
One is a takeoff of the 1960s sitcom The Patty Duke Show, on which Duke played both teenagers Patty and her identical cousin Cathy. In the ad, the harried Patty is trying to gather paperwork for her retirement benefits application while the calm ...
• Obama's intel picks short on direct experience
A former senior CIA official who advises Obama defended the surprise choice of Panetta, who has not direct intelligence experience beyond a two-year stint in the mid-1960s as a U.S. Army lieutenant. The official said Panetta had been a consumer of ...