Word: automatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shirts, socks and underwear, the appearance of thousands of haggard employees and the empty spaces at 30% of the desks and workbenches throughout the city amply proved. With few exceptions, New Yorkers the morning after could fully appreciate the sign that appeared in the window of a littered midtown Automat: PARDON OUR APPEARANCE...
...room with the coats." Dipping toward the sick, he tells about a friend, the author of What to Do in Case of Peace, who prophesied that on May 1, 1951, the world would come to an end. "For him it did," Vernon remembers. "He was eating in the Automat and the little glass door snapped down and broke his neck. That night in the hospital, he passed a crisis and died...
...Enough Hands. "Another thing I discovered was that everything was automation now. You never saw any human beings any more. It's sort of discouraging, because I remember even in the Automat, when I was a kid, you at least saw a human hand come out once in a while. But you don't even see a human hand any more. And I'm more interested in things like that than in politics.'' Buchwald's replacement in Europe will be Trib Columnist John Crosby, 50, who switched in 1960 to writing about cosmic affairs...
Most of the time, a New York City municipal election has all the suspense and flavor of lunch at the automat-deposit the votes and out pops another machine-tooled Democrat. But two-term Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner has jammed the mechanism by breaking openly with the Democratic bosses (TIME, June 30) and choosing his own running mates for a third-term attempt in November. Ever since, the city's political future has been as confusing as a subway...
...pressed, most mothers will concede that they enjoy the affection anyway, commercialized or not. In fact, an anti-anti reaction may be developing. For many people, Mother's Day is so far out that it's in-like eating at the Automat or listening to Tchaikovsky. Although not necessarily an authority on anything this side of Samoa, Anthropologist Margaret Mead summarizes this feeling: "Mother's Day is synthetic. In our culture we just make up things as we go along. But I don't just laugh at it. Some kind of ritual is important in family...