Time Capsule

I have been cleaning out cupboards and shelves in the study. I came across a stack of Time Magazines that I have saved over the years. I intended to save the one for the week of Kay’s birthday. I also kept some significant others. A few of them have drifted away somewhere but when I looked at them I was astonished at the events that occurred during her first 21 years. Here is a peek at the Time Capsule:

Sep 20 1963 Cinema as an International Art
Sep 27 1963 - Alabama Civil Rights Battlefield- Governor Wallace on cover
Nov 29 1963 - President Johnson
Dec 6 1963 - Secretary of State Dean Rusk
Feb 14 1964 - The Warren Commission - Marina Oswald on cover
Sep 25 1964 - The Nuclear Issue
Dec 4 1964 - The Congo Massacre - Dr. Paul Carlson on cover

As an aside, Dwight Carlson, Paul’s brother and his family, went to our church and their daughter stayed with us briefly while Dwight attended to matters concerning Dr. Carlson.

Sep 24 1965 - Pope Paul VI
Sep 16 1966 - Senator Robert Kennedy
Sep 22 1967 - The Beatles
Jun 14 1968 - Robert Kennedy
Sep 20 1968 - Spiro Agnew
Aug 1 1969 - Edward Kennedy
Sep 19 1969 - Middle East: Toward the Brink -Golda Meir on cover
Sep 26 1969 - Drugs and the Young
Sep 21 1970 - Pirates in the Sky
Sep 20 1971 - B F Skinner says: We can’t afford freedom
Sep 18 1972 - Murder in Munich
Sep 17 1973 - The Hamburger Empire - McDonald’s on cover
Aug 19 1974 - The Healing Begins - President Ford on cover
Sep 16 1974 -The Pardon - President Nixon on cover
Sep 15 1975 - The Girl Who Almost Killed Ford -Squeaky Fromme on the cover
Sep 22 1975 - Busing Battle
Sep 20 1976 - After Mao - Mao Tse-tung on cover
Sep 19 1977 - The Lance Affair – What it cost Carter
Sep 18 1978 - Iran in Turmoil - The Shah on cover
Sep 17 1979 - The Storm Over Cuba - Vance and Castro on cover
Sep 15 1980 - The US Voter – wary- worried -waiting

On the cover a cut-out head shows the worry to be:
Taxes
Abortion
Big Government
Housing
Foreign Policy
Arms Race
Peace
Jobs
Nuclear Power
Gas Prices
ERA

Sep 22 1980 - The Poisoning of America - Those Toxic Chemical Wastes
Sep 21 1981 - Reaganomics – making it work - Ronald Reagan on cover
Sep 20 1982 - Begin Digs In - Menachem Begin on cover
Sep19 1983 - Putting Moscow on the Defensive Ronald Reagan on cover
Sep 24 1984 - America’s Upbeat Mood - I [heart] U.S. on cover

Doesn’t it sound as though this 21 year period is very similar to what we have now and probably have had every 21 year period in the past? Matthew 6:25-34 says in brief, don’t worry! Your Heavenly Father knows what you need. Isn’t it comforting to know that we don’t need to worry?

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