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...WHITE AMERICA. A documentary that illuminates today's upheaval in race relations, detailing Negro-white discord from cotton picker and master to civil rights leader and U.S. President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Feb. 28, 1964 | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...WHITE AMERICA. A documentary that illuminates today's upheaval in race relations, In White America details Negro-white discord from cotton picker and master to civil rights leader and U.S. President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 21, 1964 | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...inner toughness. A Marine major with the OSS in Yugoslavia during World War II, Gary once produced only a few wilted flowers for decorations at a dinner that his commanding officer was giving for Tito. Dressed down by his C.O., Gary snapped: "I'm no damned posy picker." He still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personalities: Dec. 20, 1963 | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...PHRENOLOGICAL LETTUCE PICKER, which "feels" each lettuce head to determine if it is ripe for harvest. Towed over the lettuce bed at one mile per hour, a 6-in. by 18-in. conveyor belt creeps over each head, pushing it downward in passing. The machine's small, electronic memory box has already been told how stiffly a ripe head should resist deflection. If the black box decides the head feels ripe, it triggers a clutch, which in turn sends a miniature guillotine slashing through the lettuce stalk. In recent tests, the machine lopped off some 4,500 heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agronomy: Rube Goldberg on the Farm | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...greenhouse at the bottom of the garden. Their names are Leo, Sherman, Dulcie, Amy, Brenda, Sonny and Butch. Leo is the grumpy one, and Sonny won't talk. In scenes brimming with heigh-ho, Debbie and the tots, who are really the abandoned children of a migrant tobacco picker, go about housekeeping chores with more madness than method. Then Prince Charming, in the guise of a freewheeling young minister (Cliff Robertson), sets everything in order, including problems of ear washing, adoption and matrimony. Coos Debbie, who speaks Californian: "You're a regular wonder, Reverent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Snow White in Connecticut | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

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