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A nitpick: don't use the apostrophe in the phrase "in the 1960s". It's not a possessive in that sentence.

See, e.g., https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/apostrophe.html

This is not a hard-and-fast rule. There's hardly agreement in style guides on this note. Don't be a jerk and nitpick style on the internet; it does not add to the conversation. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/13631/is-an-apos...

This is largely to taste. An apostrophe doesn't always mean it's possessive, as just demonstrated, but it is also used for plural abbreviations or for numbers (like 1960's).

Casual English is fairly fluid. People rarely talk exactly according to the rules of English class.

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