He is the only Blue Jay at the All-Star game this year.

[…] this improvement will no longer figure as an Americanism or a Websterism.

This could be true ... but don't forget all the lower computers that are still out there. Just today I discovered a machine that still runs under DR DOS 6 and the useress worked with a DOS Wordprocessor, / can you imagine this ???

The most plausible answer is the onslaught of Filipinization that swept the country at this time, smoldering in the mid-1960s, flaring in the 1970s, and then set ablaze in the eighties to weaken the colonial apparatus in the larger society.