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Amateur radio in 1965 was the only way an ordinary person could build a machine on their kitchen table and use it to talk to a stranger six…
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The home party is remembered as a joke: a living room of women, a demonstration, some faintly humiliating games and a catalogue. It is one of the most…
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Marching band in 1972 was a military activity wearing a school's colours. The drill came from the parade ground, the discipline came from the parade ground, and the…
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There are a small number of American habits that produce the same reaction in every visitor, and this is the purest of them. The price on the shelf…
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There is a quiet oddity in American civic life that almost nobody examines, which is that the country conducts its elections on a working day in November.
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It is one of the most universally shared complaints in the history of television, and for most of that history the people being complained to had a technically…