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Over the 36 years, McCurdy and his wife have accumulated two daughters, three sons and three grandchildren. Still, he said it seemed like only yesterday that he tied the connuptial knot around his neck...
...raised him. The minister tells him that he should work hard, maybe harder even than anyone else, and that someday he might be able to buy some land, maybe even marry a white farm girl. "Then," says the minister, "Your children will be only one-quarter Black, you're grandchildren one-eighth Black. And, "the minister continues with a beatific smile, "why after that they'll hardly be Black at all." Blacksmith smiles. He eats his dinner and defers pleasantly to the minister. That night he goes out and gets drunk in one of the Aborigine shack towns. Somehow...
...then takes the youngster's place in his playground-a lower circle in Dante's hell. A fully automated house continues to function with mechanical mindlessness long after its inhabitants have been incinerated in a nuclear holocaust. An electrical robot grandmother does more than bake her grandchildren's favorite pies; she is a model of uncritical love. When the children grow old, she is on standby, ready for their second childhoods. An uninhabited planet resists earthlings who have come to settle...
David Rockefeller owns 1.7% of Chase Manhattan and is the largest individual shareholder of what is known along Wall Street as David's Bank. During 32 years at Chase, Rockefeller, the youngest of John D. Rockefeller's six grandchildren, floated effortlessly to the top, without ever having made a single loan or spent time as a teller...
...total of more than 50,000 snapshots. "It seems like we got a lot from small towns," says Jones. "Florida was big, big, big. I don't know, maybe it's because there are so many grandmothers in Florida and they all feel they have great-looking grandchildren." Sears executives now estimate the final tally may top a quarter of a million...