Pierre Cardin launched the "nude look," featuring flesh-colored panels, in 1966.

R. Buckminster Fuller was given the Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1968.

In 1967 U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare John Gardner publicly criticized the American automotive industry for contributing to air pollution.

In 1964 Vienna-born designer Rudi Gernreich unveiled his topless women's bathing suit, creating a stir of controversy.

Philip Johnson's New York State Theater in Lincoln Center opened on 23 April 1964.

Jacqueline Kennedy was inducted into the Fashion Hall of Fame in 1966.

Morris Lapidus's fifty-story, two-thousand-room Americana Hotel opened on 24 September 1962 in New York.

In 1966 pop artist Roy Lichtenstein designed an expensive line of china for the Durable Dish Company.

Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was one of thirty-one recipients of the Presidential Medal of Honor in 1963.

In 1966, the year following his best-selling book Unsafe at...