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...colony. Hitler was still widely regarded as a hysterical Munich beer-hall brawler who could have benefited from Freud's treatment. In headlines "holocaust" was only a word for a large fire. Japan's chief export was raw silk. The jet set did not yet exist; its precursor, the smart set, took a week to cross the Atlantic. The juxtaposition of "man" and "moon" was strictly fantasy...
...Tygiel, the Robinson story is about more than just baseball; it's a precursor of the potent new force in American politics--the civil rights movement. His thesis is that baseball's integration process closely mirrored the integration process as a whole across the United States over the next two decades. More than that, integration in baseball had a direct effect, Tygiel argues, on the efforts to desegregate society in general--acting as part and parcel of the forces breaking down old Southern mores...
...were an alien and slightly comical species whose rituals could be observed and mimicked. Other television children were passive; problems happened to them. Beaver actively courted trouble. He brought home live snakes, fell into a steaming billboard soup bowl, and cut his own hair so that he resembled a precursor of punkdom. Beaver was not streetwise, he was backyard-wise. He was good, but never goody-goody. In his mind, he was guilty until proved innocent...
...more fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C (oranges, broccoli and tomatoes) and beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A found in squash, carrots and other yellow and green vegetables. Both substances inhibit the formation of chemically induced cancers in laboratory tests; both are associated with lower cancer rates in human populations. The committee counseled against high-dose vitamin pills because of insufficient evidence about their health benefits. High doses of vitamin A, it added, can be toxic...
DIED. Dan Throop Smith, 74, chief tax economist in the Eisenhower Administration, distinguished academician at Harvard and Stanford's Hoover Institution and longtime conservative advocate of tax cuts to boost the economy; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif. A precursor of supply-side economists, Smith believed "all taxes are repressive," and supported lower capital gains taxes to encourage risk-taking investments. At the same time, he urged reduction of tax incentives for "safe" investments that do not lead to a greater supply of capital for business. His aim: "To make it easier to get rich but harder...