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Today in History: June 23, Title IX signed into law
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 week agoToday’s Highlight in History: On June 23, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed into law Title IX, barring discrimination on the basis of sex for “any education program or activity receiving ...
Roger Corman Was the Low-Budget Filmmaker Who Remade Hollywood
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 month agoPhoto Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyRoger Corman never made a great movie....
Pete McCloskey, antiwar candidate who took on Nixon, dies at 96
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPete McCloskey, a veteran who wanted U.S. troops out of Vietnam, was the first congressman to urge...
Hitchhiking Tom Waits was once picked up by ‘Nature Boy’ songwriter Eden Ahbez
The Independent via Yahoo News· 7 months agoTom Waits has recalled the extraordinary moment he was given a lift by none other than Eden Ahbez,...
Henry Kissinger: Polarising architect of Cold War era American foreign policy
The Independent via Yahoo News· 7 months agoInfluential US secretary of state to Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and Nobel Peace Prize winner...
'Laverne & Shirley' actor Cindy Williams dies at 75
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCindy Williams, who was among the most recognizable stars in America in the 1970s and 1980s for her role as Shirley opposite Penny Marshall's Laverne on...