Baby Boomers
How “Baby Boomers” Took Over the World
How “Baby Boomers” Took Over the World
by Landon Y. Jones
Washington Post Outlook
8 November 2015
(pdf version)
The First Baby Boomer Turns 60
Swinging 60s? The First Baby Boomer looks back – and forward – on the eve of a milestone.
Smithsonian (pdf)
by Landon Jones
January 2006
Busted by the Baby Boom, Time Magazine, Jan. 29, 1990
Busted by the Baby Boom – TIME
In 1967, Rumania’s “mother heroines” launched the most compressed baby boom in modern history — and destabilized an entire nation.
TIME
by Landon Y. Jones
January 29, 1990
(pdf version)
82 People to Watch in ’82
82 PEOPLE TO WATCH IN ’82
by Phillip Longman and Cyndi Bowers
New Jersey Monthly
January 1982
(pdf version)
The Hickel Heckling, from the PAW Archives, originally published April 28, 1970
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/paw-archives-hickel-heckling
Shortly after 8:30 on Thursday evening, March 5, 1970, Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel rose to his feet and began to address a crowd of nearly 2,000 persons assembled in Jadwin Gymnasium. At the same time, a group of about 75 young men and women sitting in the upper balcony of the gym began to chant, jeer, and shout insults at the speaker.
Pausing only to catch his breath and quickly glance up at the protesters, Secretary Hickel continued to read off his text. The chanting mounted in volume: “Talk about the War! Talk about the War!” And, “Talk about the oil! Talk about the oil!” Several young people, wearing buckskin fringes and headbands with red smears on their foreheads, began to shout out Indian-style war whoops. President Robert Goheen, the only other person sitting on the speaker’s platform, stared silently up at the disrupters, his hands tightening on the arms of his chair ….