Word: slots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a teaching disk is inserted in the machine, a question appears in a slot. The student then writes his answer in the place provided. He pushes a lever and his answer slides up beneath a glass plate, so that changes cannot be made. At the same time, the correct answer is revealed in another slot. The process continues until all questions on the disk have been correctly answered...
...year on CBS The Danny Thomas Show has benefited from a better time slot (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T.) and higher exposure (93 more stations than it had on ABC). But more important in Danny's rise from Nielsen's nowhere is that CBS's Danny has quit striving for gags that were foreign to its situations or strained for premises to justify its jokes. Says Thomas: "Comedy just for comedy's sake is barking up the wrong cliche. Comedy has to come out of the situation to have any staying power...
Playing first doubles, Jim Gallwey and Fred Vinton won, 6-1, 6-1. Ned Weld and Bill Wood triumphed 6-0, 6-0 in the second slot, while Jim Cameron and Dick Chute completed the sweep with a 6-1, 6-0 victory...
...main fault with Audience is not its content, but its intent. Edited in the Harvard community, it is not a part of that community. There are no night people depositing their yellow sheaves of paper at the Kirkland Street door slot. The authors are scattered about the nation, most of them belonging to an older generation. Audience, despite its opening editorial protestations, is just another little magazine. If there are too few in Cambridge, there are too many in America--from Washington Square to North Beach...
After hearing the stories from the clan, the feds estimated that a good 50% of San Francisco's Chinatown are illegal residents; they hope they will be able to halt the flow by fining and jailing Chinese who deal directly in slot contacts, in the past year and a half have prosecuted 69. The U.S. probably will not prosecute the others, since deporting them would be impracticable. But all this did not ease the situation of old Huey Bing Dai, who gave everything away. "The whole town's mad at him," said a young Chinese-American. "He will...