Fifties (125 page)

Margaret Sanger was one of the great crusaders of the era for greater sexual freedom for women.
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Katharine Dexter McCormick supplied the badly needed money for the revolution in contraceptives.
THE MIT MUSEUM

Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe: It was the tabloids’ dream wedding—the nation’s greatest baseball player marrying its sexiest actress.
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Marilyn Monroe in a scene from
The Seven Year Itch;
DiMaggio was enraged, and a bitter domestic fight followed.
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Hugh Hefner, sensing that his own sexual obsessions were similar to those of other males of his generation, founded a magazine empire in the fifties.
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Grace Metalious’s accurate portrait of small-town New England life made her a bestselling author, but she had problems dealing with her newfound success.
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Betty Friedan, assigned to do a magazine article on her fifteenth college reunion, found that she was hardly alone in her career disappointments. She is pictured here with her daughter Emily.
THE SCHLESINGER LIBRARY, RADCLIFFE COLLEGE

American-backed supporters of the shah of Iran ride through Teheran aboard a tank, holding up a portrait of their leader. A 1953 CIA coup toppled the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh and installed the shah as Iran’s sole ruler.
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Mohammed Mossadegh being led into Iranian court in 1953 for a session of his trial for treason.
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A soldier stands guard while supporters of Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas make broadcasts outside of his headquarters in Chiquimulilla, Guatemala. Armas was installed by a CIA coup after American authorities decided the government of Jacobo Arbenz was too left-wing.
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Earl Warren posing for the first time in his black silk judicial robe after being sworn in as the fourteenth chief justice of the United States in 1953. He immediately set out to make the Supreme Court’s decision on the landmark Brown case a unanimous one.
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