British-born celebrity hairstylist Vidal Sassoon – who revolutionised haircuts in the 1960s – has died at his home in Los Angeles, aged 84, police say.

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Hairstylist Vidal Sassoon dies

A study commissioned by American Roman Catholic bishops says abuse occurred because priests who were poorly prepared landed in the midst of the turmoil of the 1960s and1970s.

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Church Report Cites Social Tumult in Priest Scandals

The man who pioneered the mass-production of LSD in the 1960s was killed in an automobile accident in Australia.

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Owsley Stanley, Artisan of Acid, Is Dead at 76

The Dalai Lama announced Thursday his retirement from public life. He asked the Tibetan parliament in exile to relieve him of his “formal authority” as head of the Tibetan government. “As early as the 1960s, I have repeatedly stressed that Tibetans…

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Dalai Lama Retires from Politics

Mr. Flom, who began as a top adviser in proxy fights in the 1960s, became one of the pre-eminent lawyers involved in the costly and risky business of corporate mergers and acquisitions.

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DealBook: Joseph H. Flom, Pioneering Deal Lawyer, Dies at 87

As a young woman in the 1960s, Sister Cecilia Dwyer came to an isolated Benedictine monastery in western Prince William County to begin her life as a nun.

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From pastures to bedroom community, rapid growth in Linton Hall mirrors state

The US Army denies ethnic Hmong leader Vang Pao, who led a CIA-sponsored secret war in Laos in the 1960s, a burial in Arlington National Cemetery.

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Key Hmong denied Arlington burial

Mr. Meredith was a star quarterback for the Cowboys in the 1960s and a member of ABC’s “Monday Night Football” team.

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Don Meredith, Cosell’s Foil, Dies at 72

The view of the New Hollywood of the 1960s, often portrayed as the influence of European films on American filmmakers, fails to note the role of the big Hollywood studios.

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film: ’60s Hollywood: Power Shifted (or Did It?)

Letty Cottin Pogrebin was an executive in the 1960s, and could have been Peggy in the popular TV show.

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Big City: In ‘Mad Men,’ She Would Have Been Peggy

One in seven Americans was living in poverty in 2009 with the level of working-age poor the highest since the 1960s, the US Census Bureau says.

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One in seven ‘in poverty in US’

Eminent commentators look back at the 1960s

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A missed chance?