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Article: Sixties' top era for a trip in time

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April 12, 1996
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The time machine of H G Wells's imagination has yet to be invented but if it were, the public's number-one destination would be the Sixties, a survey will reveal this morning.

Its findings show the British are a pragmatic lot, dismissing the pageantry of the Elizabethan or Regency age for the decade when the Beatles topped the charts.

But although one-fifth of people opted for the 1960s, the future came a surprisingly close second with an ...

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