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...Vegas. 4:30 a.m. Muzak oozing. Dice clacking. Slot machines whirring. No clocks. No windows. No chairs -except at the green felt tables. Ray the Shark, middleaged, middle class, Middle West, peeks at cards, puffs cigar, rubs lucky shirt, peeks again and draws another card. Blackjack! Adrenaline pumping, grinning beatificially, he multiplies his bets-and loses. Wife appears, her palms covered with grey metallic sheen from feeding coins to slot machines. "Quick," he whispers, "I'm hot. Give me the money I told you not to give...
...aboard a kiddy-car-sized plastic cart and picks up a claim ticket. At the check-in counter, a clerk inserts the ticket into a sensor, sending cart and luggage along a track onto the proper airplane. At his destination, the passenger again inserts his ticket into a slot, whereupon the laden cart obediently trundles to his side. Estimated average time for the loading or unloading operation: three minutes...
Like shooting bottles off a barnyard fence, the gunslingers on NBC's top-rated Bonanza have for several seasons systematically picked off every show offered in the opposing time slots. Five months ago, CBS rushed in a pair of suburban slickers, and to the industry's surprise, they knocked Bonanza out of the No. 1 slot and made the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour the most popular new TV show of the season...
...such offbeat features as Hello Down There, a futuristic comedy about a family living in a deep-sea bungalow, and Natural Enemies, the saga of a young couple adopted by a pride of lions. This fall, Tors will have five TV shows in the early-evening time slot, five more in reruns and a strong claim to succeed Walt Disney as the leading producer of family films...
...Negro students sat-in at lunch counters and Africans on campus discussed the task of running a country. "We were envious of the Africans," James Wiley '65, former president of AAAAS says. "They had something meaningful to talk about. The best American Negroes could aspire to was finding a slot in someone else's administration...