Saigon in the Sixties

What happened in the sixties?

In general history and popular culture, the long 1960s, a period roughly beginning in the mid-1950s and ending in the mid-1970s, has been held to be a period of change. This paper offers a model which captures something of the long 1960s as a period of ‘sea change’ resulting from the interference of three waves. Wave One was an institutional dynamic that drew out experts from closed and hidden ...

Una Historia Rebelde: Corridos and the Sixties

For México, the sixties became a decade of social movements, modernization attempts, and a golden age for the middle class. Yet, historians often overlook the sixties because it is seen merely as a period of economic growth. However, many sources that are seldom analyzed portray a different history of México. This project utilizes corridos, or narrative ballads, as primary sources to depict a h...

A man in his sixties with severe hypotension and oedema.

A man in his sixties was admitted to hospital late one evening after fainting in the bathroom. He had felt increasingly lethargic in the days immediately prior to hospitalisation, but had not otherwise noticed anything out of the ordinary. He had been treated for hypertension for the past 10 – 12 years, initially with amlodipine (Norvasc), subsequently with carvediol, irbesartan/hydrochlorothia...

Up Against the Wall: Primal Therapy and 'the Sixties'

Nineteen Sixties History of Data Base Management

Data base management evolved during the sixties and seventies. The evolution period was protracted. Many driving forces impacted the evolution and it is the aim of this paper to analyze these driving forces (some technical and some political) and to discuss the impact of each. The driving forces are identified as follows: higher level languages, generalization of software, non-procedural approa...