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1965

“Dapper, relaxed Joe Wilson, president of Xerox Corp., is one executive who can say he is literally working up a storm,” Newsweek said. He “plans to turn his bumptious $385 million a year Xerox Corp. into a $2 billion a year behemoth by 1975.” Now a Fortune 500 company, Xerox has evolved by driving innovation into the 3D-printing industry. The company also has expanded its environmental impact with its recently published 2021 Global Corporate Social Responsibility Report, which outlines its goals and commitment to producing more eco-friendly procedures and technologies.

1976

“The chance to boogie again is appealing to the Beautiful People, the bourgeoisie and the blue-collar worker alike,” Newsweek wrote at the height of the disco era. This year, Netflix released the series Halston about the designer whose name was synonymous with the glamour and debauchery of the Studio 54 set.

1993

“Accustomed as Californians have become to the annual brush-fire season, no one in Los Angeles could escape the fact that this year’s outbreaks were as bad as any in southern California,” Newsweek reported. Thirty years later, 2021 has already been recorded as one of the worst years of wildfires and droughts in the state’s history.