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In this November 6, 1956, file photo, Barbara Mahar attaches a new TV accessory to her television set in New York City. An instant tuner, it converts television sets to remote control tuning in three minutes.TV was key to the world baby boomers were born into: a newly modernized world whose every problem (with the possible exception of the Cold War) seemed to promise an available solution. Polio would be cured! Man would go into space! Even African-Americans, oppressed for so long, had new reason for hope. TV chronicled this bracing wave of wonder and potential, and built upon it as an essential part of what distinguished boomers: They were pampered and privileged and ushered toward a sure-to-be-glorious future. (Photo by Robert Kradin/AP Photo)
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