This animated series from the early ’60s imagined a futuristic society with flying cars, robot maids, and treadmill sidewalks. In essence, it projected a hopeful view of technology—a world ...

Color TV arrives in the early '60s and is embraced far more rapidly than the old black-and-white sets. By the end of the decade, 95 percent of homes have at least one TV. The Beatles are heard ...

"He is out of pain now. His suffering is over. At last he is at peace," wrote his close friend Laurie Jacobson.