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• the anabolic steroid Methandrostenolone was prescribed to women in the 1960s as a tonic, until its masculinising effects were discovered?
• the 1960s singing duo Paul & Paula inspired such pairings as Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell?
• the U.S. movement toward small claims courts began in the early 1960s, as Justice of the Peace courts became increasingly archaic?
• the field of island restoration is usually credited with having been started in New Zealand in the 1960s?
• while Aleksandra Pakhmutova composed pieces for the symphony orchestra and a ballet, her fame in the former Soviet Union rests primarily on 400 songs she composed back in the 1960s and 1970s?
• the first film to take advantage of the relaxation of communism in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s was The Sun in a Net?
• in the 1950s and 1960s, some residents of mid-rise apartment buildings would sleep outside on their fire escapes during hot summers?
• during the 1960s, Texas lawyer John Ben Shepperd worked to obtain the land for the creation of Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site along the Pedernales River?
• Edgar Buchanan was a dentist before becoming an American actor with a long career in both movies and television, and is probably best remembered as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction and Green Acres television sitcoms of the 1960s?
• earthquake lights, although described in 373 BC, were not convincingly documented until the 1960s?
• Harvey Littleton, a former professor at the University of Wisconsin, pioneered the American studio glass movement in the 1960s and is responsible for training many prominent glass artists?
• The Brady Bunch actress Maureen McCormick was one of the many people who voiced the 1960s toy Chatty Cathy?
• The Patty Duke Show challenged the scope of special effects on television in the 1960s, with Patty Duke playing two roles?
• American educator Septima Poinsette Clark, known as the "Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement," worked for educational and civil rights for African-Americans decades before the rise of national awareness of inequality in the 1960s?