Word: inheritence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worthy and it likes them rich. Fat little 22-year-old Minot F. ("Mickey") Jelke qualifies on both counts. Mickey loves nightclubs, he is listed in the Social Register, and his father, Oleomargarine Magnate John Faris Jelke. of Chicago, has millions stashed away; Mickey himself is due to inherit a fortune when...
...Pease estimates that a duplicate, easily convertible to other jobs, could be made for $50,000 to $70,000, about six times the cost of an ordinary milling machine. None of this meant that the robot factory was right around the corner (or that the robots were about to inherit the earth). But the day was measurably closer. Summing up his own views in the current Scientific American, Pease says: "With [such] machines in control, we can conceive of factories which will process, assemble and finish any article of manufacture. It is unlikely that the automatic factory will appear suddenly...
...marry him. She puts him up in her elegant home overlooking the bay and gives him plenty of pocket money, but Palance is still brooding over her professional affront to him. With the help of an old flame (Gloria Grahame), he decides to eliminate Joan so that he can inherit her money-and presumably finance a stage production in which he will-play the romantic lead...
...correspondent worth the price of a cable toll knows that, in moving to a new post, he will inherit a desk calendar covered with mysterious scrawls, address books with unidentified phone numbers, a bewildering assortment of old news clippings, and a series of phone calls meant for his predecessor. W ith perseverance, he usually succeeds in living down the ghost of his forerunner. But Cranston Jones, who recently became TIME'S correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, thinks he will always be haunted by a triple-decker ghost named White...
...Bishop Herrera and those who think like him should inherit the Spain of tomorrow. Protestants could hardly expect much more elbow room than they have now. But there would be room for one modern idea, which to medieval minds is always heresy: change...