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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would seem at first sight," said the archbishop, "that automation, which transfers to machines operations that were previously reserved to man's genius and labor, so that machines think and remember and correct and control, would create a vaster difference between man and the contemplation of God. But this isn't so. It mustn't be so. By blessing these machines, we are causing a contract to be made and a current to run between the one pole, religion, and the other, technology . . . These machines become a modern means of contact between...
...discussion he dwelt perceptively on Diego Rivera, the habits of alligators, Dickens, the Oklahoma legislature, fine printing, Arabian oil, academic freedom, the winter treatment for banana trees in Dallas patios. And what he most abhorred, in his vain way, was weakness-especially weakness of the intellect. Aging, the sight of one eye totally gone, he began to suffer the blood-draining anguish of aplastic anemia. He feared that somehow his mind soon would be affected, found the thought too much to bear...
...Records! Records!" yells the six-year-old with a gleeful face, dragging his mother toward the rack of colored "envelopes in the supermarket. Mother escapes to the grocery department, leaving her son to make his choice. She is barely out of sight when the tot spots a picture of a locomotive on one of the jackets and shrieks. "Ma! Ma! I'm ready!" She returns and exasperatedly says: "You've already got a choo-choo record." Then she scans the rack, and a nostalgic smile crosses her face as she picks up Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
...quick hands, the New York Giants never seemed to know what to do about Jack Roosevelt Robinson. Their pitchers threw baseballs at his greying head and their bench jockeys winged epithets at his quick temper. Still his big bat, or darting base running, broke up ball games. The very sight of his pigeon-toed trot to position moved the fans on Coogan's Bluff to borrow from Yankee territory that ultimate complaint, the long Bronx cheer. Even when taking their lumps from every other team in the league, the Giants usually managed to play good ball against the Brooklyn...
...color plunge, Sarnoff insisted that black-and-white TV is slack ing off and color is "the booster charge for our fourth decade." With the kind of optimism that helped his immigrant father become one of the great U.S. success stories, Bobby Sarnoff professed to see a pleasant sight. "At our 60th anniversary convention," he said, "I expect to be talking about television signals which span the globe. My subject then will be: The World-in Color...