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I am no football expert. I am only a fan. I learned the game as a cheerleader in the 1960s. I knew the “push ‘em back” and the “ hey, hey, let’s go” as well as anybody.
Published: Saturday, February 24th, 2024 @ 9:58 am
By: Lib Campbell
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This may seem unreal for this 1960's /70's rocker, but, I enjoy classical music, and on most occasions, the ballet.
Published: Friday, December 8th, 2023 @ 12:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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My love of football started in high school. In the 1960s, Coaches Stuart Tripp and Tommy Lewis led Ayden High School Single-A football teams to many winning seasons and state championships.
Published: Saturday, January 14th, 2023 @ 11:02 am
By: Lib Campbell
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The late incomparable actress Angela Lansbury, who was nominated for an Oscar twice before she turned 21 and later dominated the stage in New York, winning an astonishing five Tonys, admitted in 2014 that she moved her family to Ireland from California in the 1960s
Published: Friday, November 11th, 2022 @ 1:51 am
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina is neither a red state, nor blue. It is increasingly becoming a gray state. In 1960 our state’s median age was 25.5 years.
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 10:05 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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On July 31, 1960, outside Congress, Arizona, investigated the scene around the body of a young girl who was lying partially buried in the desert.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 8:56 am
By: Daily Wire
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NASA is set to unveil the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ending a campaign from astronomers and other activists who claimed that James Webb, the telescope’s namesake “persecuted” LBGT individuals in his employ while he was NASA’s administrator in the 1950s and 1960s.
Published: Thursday, November 18th, 2021 @ 5:54 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The year 2020 is the year of election interference and election tampering. No other presidential election (aside from the election of 1960 between Nixon and John F. Kennedy) has been fraught with such intentional, deliberate, anti-American, unconstitutional, and treasonous activities.
Published: Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 @ 7:07 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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In his classic work, Christianity and Communism, which was first printed in 1948 and later revised in 1960, Christian social ethicist, John C. Bennet, said that there is nothing Communists aren't willing to do to spread the Communist Revolution.
Published: Monday, June 1st, 2020 @ 2:53 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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I studied history at a college with a Confederate soldier monument during the biggest progressive social upheaval since the 1960's
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2018 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a proud history of supporting free speech and expression. One of the proudest moments in its history - and justifiably so - is how the entire university community fought the infamous Speaker Ban Law of the 1960s
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 @ 9:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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You need to know that in the 60s censorship was such that even Girly Magazine models wore shorts and tank tops.
Published: Friday, April 27th, 2018 @ 5:26 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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In 1960s Jungle, you could not call a taxi. You could radio base for a Chopper ride and mark your clearing with Smoke.
Published: Tuesday, April 17th, 2018 @ 9:56 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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We are right on the cusp of a mile race but have only completed the first 100 yards (days), so it may be a bit premature to declare a winner. But what do I know, I had to quit sports and go to work and they may have altered the course length since 1960.
Published: Saturday, April 29th, 2017 @ 1:28 am
By: Bobby Tony
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The cop-killing gunman, 29-year-old Gavin Long - who ambushed police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, leaving three law enforcement officers dead and another three wounded on Sunday morning
Published: Tuesday, July 26th, 2016 @ 11:19 am
By: Jim Kouri
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The cop-killing gunman, 29-year-old Gavin Long, who ambushed police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, leaving three law enforcement officers dead and another three wounded on Sunday morning is slowly being understood by authorities
Published: Thursday, July 21st, 2016 @ 4:17 pm
By: Jim Kouri
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Dr. Ruth, sex expert 1960, was a sniper in the Israeli army. Julia Childs, cooking author, served in the WW2 OSS (now CIA). Why does the News Media think this is new News
Published: Friday, May 13th, 2016 @ 4:56 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Restoring cars is not an investment; it is a hobby. Chasing a dream car is not for the poor or faint of heart.
Published: Thursday, April 14th, 2016 @ 12:08 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Beginning in the 1960s, a movement developed in academia with the aim of transforming scholarly pursuits into instruments of social change
Published: Saturday, February 27th, 2016 @ 6:35 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Growing up in Fuquay-Varina in the 1960s, Sheilah Cotten's only chance to participate in competitive sports before she entered high school was retrieving foul balls during boys' baseball games.
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 3:45 am
By: ECU News Services
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The icon picture is Larry Patrick and Playboy Playmate Candy Loving who was representing Budweiser Beer.
Published: Wednesday, January 20th, 2016 @ 11:15 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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No hit parade of music would be complete without the Blues.
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2015 @ 8:15 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Jet black hair, just like Elvis and big old black rimmed glasses prove that looks were not all that was needed. A great voice was a must for Roy Orbison.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 9:10 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Most probably would not include this song on their hit parade, but it hit me particular hard in 1960 when as a 15 year old.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 5:21 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Since the 1960s, the academic history profession has changed markedly. Traditional fields such as military history, diplomatic history, intellectual history, religious history, and political history have been deemphasized, when not completely eliminated.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 6:35 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Grade inflation is rampant on American campuses. According to a study by Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy, A’s represent 43 percent of all grades awarded today—up from 15 percent in 1960.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 @ 9:54 am
By: John William Pope Center
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I initially registered as a Democrat because my parents were, but also because you had to be a Democrat if you wanted to vote in North Carolina's primary elections in the 1960s.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:51 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Paul Gottfried's recent Pope Center essay The Academy Now and Then raises important issues regarding whether today's campus permits the expression of unpopular ideas. He argues that campus life was far more open when he began his academic career in the 1960s than it is in today's PC-dominated world.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 10:29 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Growing up in the 1960s, Freeman Hrabowski was an unlikely candidate for protesting at a civil rights march. The chunky "nerd" - as he now describes his childhood demeanor - was more interested in solving math problems and eating M&Ms than in effecting social change.
Published: Thursday, February 6th, 2014 @ 9:27 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Before it became ensconced in academia, feminism had a point. By the 1960s, sex roles in the United States were changing; traditional roles had become outmoded and constricting. Laws, habits, and customs needed to be updated - and they were.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2014 @ 8:01 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The useful idiots at McClatchy and WRAL are breaking their necks to paint Bill Barber's lefty fruitcake convention at the legislative building as the moral equivalent of Rosa Parks, James Meredith and MLK crusading for civil rights in the 1960s.
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 @ 12:59 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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If you can get beyond the horribly dated technology and the occasional lapse into hippie-inspired silliness, the classic late-1960s libertarian-themed television
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 7:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Most North Carolinians believe the Civil Rights Movement occurred strictly in the 1960s, with the start of the Sit-Ins at the Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 4:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On February 1, 1960, four African-American students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's store.
Published: Saturday, December 22nd, 2012 @ 2:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am in the helping profession. As a doc, I get to help people everyday. Not only do I help them understand their illness, but I hope I help them successfully deal with the worst illness known to humankind- as they used to say in the 1960's- the big "C".
Published: Saturday, June 30th, 2012 @ 9:04 pm
By: John Inzerillo, M.D.
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"One day, I walked into an operating room, to just be an observant, which we would do generally, as a medical resident. It was the 1960's and abortion was still legal.
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 @ 10:18 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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