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...City was mechanization. The Caterpillar powerplant with hydraulic ice cream dipper was part of the sidewalk force. Special emphasis was laid on clearing the sidewalks by Cambridge Mayor, Eddie J. Sullivan, so that local police could issue tickets for longstanding meter violations without getting their hip-boots wet. Asked if the Police would tag buried cars, the Mayor snapped, "If we can find them, we'll tag them. They parked the damned things, didn't they?" Mechanization met vain but fierce resistance on the Square, however, as enraged townsmen, swearing the machines were part of a University plot, barracaded themselves...
...what most viewers wait for is Hitchcock's deadpan, devastating comments on the show's Bristol-Myers commercials. He ordinarily treats them with a disdain that is the equivalent of a fastidious man brushing a particularly repellent caterpillar off his lapel. After one drama, Hitchcock said gloomily: "As you know, someone must always pay the piper. Fortunately, we already have such a person. This philanthropic gentleman wishes to remain anonymous, but perhaps the more discerning of our audience will be able to find a clue to his identity in the following commercial." When the sales message has ended...
...creatures, the nearest thing to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball is a well-bred, cultured Southern white woman, or her blue-eyed, golden-haired little girl." By contrast, he adds: "The social, political, economic and religious preferences of the Negro remain close to the caterpillar and the cockroach . . . proper food for a chimpanzee...
...August the nation's department stores showed a 6% sales gain over the comparable week for 1954. In fact, spending was so free that a cloud of inflation loomed on the horizon. Farm equipment prices moved up (an average, 6% for Ford Motor Co., 7% for Caterpillar Tractor Co. and Deere & Co.); building materials, coal, work clothes and soft goods were edging upward. But Administration economists were carefully watching the trend (TIME...
...clergy: "To say little or nothing about . . . how the dead live, or with what body they will hereafter come. These are matters belonging to the other side of death, and there is no more reason to suppose we can imagine them reliably than we have to suppose a caterpillar on a leaf can imagine what it is like...