Clad in a vintage 1960s dark suit, white shirt, and thin tie, Gideon Marcus looks as if he stepped off the set of the TV series “Mad Men.” He assures a full room of science fiction and fantasy fans that 1965 is a pretty neat time to be alive.
The music is good, he says, gas costs 25 cents a gallon, the United States is proceeding apace with its Mercury launches, and TV is transitioning from black and white to color. On the downside, the food is fatty, chrome-rimmed cars belch unseemly plumes of smoke, and cigarettes are everywhere — even in the nonsmoking sections of airplanes.
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