1960s

After posting its worst sales decline since the 1960s, Toyota Motor Co. is offering an uncharacteristically splashy incentive offer.

The automaker is offering 0% financing on eleven models nationwide.

9:55 a.m.: We’re here at the Apple event, seated and waiting. Laptops everywhere. Some great tunes from the 1960s - today, we call it Classic Rock - are playing while we wait.

The event, after all, is titled “Let’s Rock. The music seems appropriate. Updates will be coming regularly.

The sales rate of prescription medications slowed by more than half in 2007 to levels not seen since the early 1960s, according to a report released Wednesday.

The sales rate of prescription medications slowed by more than half in 2007 to levels not seen since the early 1960s, according to a report released Wednesday.

Tia Smallwood remembers what it was like to attend college in the late 1960s, when women were struggling to break out of stereotypical fields like teaching.

She talks to her daughter about her unusual first job interview and the complicated choice she had to make between motherhood and career.

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Mailuu-Suu, Kyrgyzstan, was once an elite Soviet industrial town, where uranium was mined and processed.

The mining came to a stop in the 1960s. The radioactive waste remains, and little has been done to protect the town's more than 20,000 residents.

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When Carrie Conley's husband left in the early 1960s, she started raising six children on her own. Even after getting a job at a hospital, Conley often asked herself a question: "Lord, what am I going to do with all these kids, by myself?"

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The funeral for daredevil Evel Knievel was held Monday in his hometown of Butte, Mont.

Thousands of people came out in tribute to the motorcycle stunt rider who became a cultural icon in the 1960s and '70s.