Playboy After Hours

March, 1961

Ironic events have been taking place around us, portents, we like to think, of more amiable times. We learn, for instance, that toll booths on one of those stupefying New Jersey turnpikes, recently operated upon so that they might dispense toll cards without human assistance, are now being staffed again with real people, because the machines couldn't handle this simple job. Meanwhile, in a large New York office building, whose owners have spent heaven-knows-how-many thousands of dollars to make...