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...best-selling Robert the Robot by meeting our price and adding a battery motor. In order to meet our $6 price, Marx eliminated from his robot the phonograph recording which permits our Robert to talk. It says, "I'm Robert the Robot, the mechanical man. Drive me and steer me wherever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

Griswold noted that many college advisers steer prospective law students into commercial and business courses. "It might be well to make it plainer that this sort of thing is not looked on with favor as far as this School is concerned," he stated...

Author: By Philip M. Soffey, | Title: Dean Griswold Decries "Specialized" Applicants | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...bushel bag of mixed feed and poured most of it into a trough for his non-purebred calves. Stepping back, he gauged with practiced eye each calf's enthusiasm for the mixture. Such attention pays off: only a few days before, he had spotted a white-faced black steer (a grade cross between Hereford and Angus) mincing at the feed. Although the calf's nose was not running, Joe figured it might have a cold, or, worse yet, be "one of them that just never does eat like he oughta." With the help of his old high-school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Closest Thing to the Lord | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...young farmer (the 4-H Club, with membership of more than 2,000,000, differs from the F.F.A. mainly in taking both boys and girls and in not being tied so directly to high school vocational agriculture). Joe, at the suggestion of his 4-H supervisor, bought a black steer, fed it for five months, and took it to the Nashville Fat Cattle Show, where it did badly. Back home, determined to do better, Joe bought a registered Duroc gilt, then set out to buy some good purebred cattle. He was on his way to a career as a farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Closest Thing to the Lord | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...country because Frank Walsh, an experienced San Francisco sports promoter, arranged the tour this summer by himself, without the A.A.U.'s approval. Dan Ferris, the Secretary of the A.A.U., said Walsh went through "the wrong channels" in scheduling the trip. But couldn't the A.A.U. find it possible to steer him into the "right channel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russia Plays Ball | 10/14/1955 | See Source »

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