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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, grey tweed wrapper, nurses' uniforms have followed fashion from the Gibson-girl shirtwaist to the pencil-slim sheath. To nurses, the top designer and dressmaker is Manhattan's White Swan Uniforms, Inc. Last week White Swan brought out a fat new catalogue with 98 attractive styles. Newest additions to the line: a high-busted, low-waisted Dior-like model that could almost double as a cocktail dress, and for summer, a shoulder-strap, sun-back uniform with Eisenhower jacket...
Last week, in a pastel blue and grey room on the fifth floor of a St. Louis office building, the newest Wellsian brain in the earthly world was enthroned. This quintessential brain looked like nothing more than a collection of filing cases, stretching in a 60-ft. semicircle about the room. From within the grey metal cases came a faint humming sound; along the light-studded metallic face were scores of twinkling orange sparks, rippling like waves of thought. As in the Grand Lunar's palace, a blaze of light flooded over the pale walls and pillars of rosy...
...brain was the newest electronic calculator, developed by International Business Machines Corp. and installed in Monsanto Chemical Co.'s St. Louis headquarters. To IBM, it was the "Model 702 Electronic Data Processing Machine." To Monsanto and awed visitors, it was simply "the giant brain." Seated at its control console, a man has at his command the computing ability of 25,000 trained mathematicians...
Although the distinction between active and inactive reserve training carries tremendous significance for most young men, the actual military difference is small. Active reservists would have the opportunity to maintain proficiency in the newest weapons, of course. But the Commission observed that "regular forces would be immediately available for duty in the theatre of operations. Inactive reservists could complete their field training by the time shipping was available for their transportation." Transportation, not training, would be the bottleneck slowing the mobilization of inactive reservists with just six months of basic training...
...redoing Joyce's Mr. Bloom. While some shreds of humanist culture clung to Bloom, Pivner's brain is a sheer pulp of newspaper headlines, self-help manuals and radio commercials ("Hi, gang! Your friend Lazarus the Laughing Leper brings you radio's newest kiddies' program, The Lives of the Saints, sponsored by Necrostyle ... Don't forget, kids, Necrostyle, the wafer-shaped sleeping pill...