Word: americanness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Addressing a meeting of the American Physical Society on his latest scientific passion-submicrominiaturization-Feynman took off from the fact that tiny human cells perform a variety of complex functions. He reasoned that human beings could theoretically manipulate mechanical devices on the same tiny scale. Arguing that the technical applications of such research would be "enormous"-it would be convenient, he noted, to be able to store all the world's basic knowledge in the equivalent of a pocket-sized pamphlet-Feynman then and there impetuously offered two $1,000 prizes. One was to go to the first person...
Verdi) Arturo (for Toscanini) Alfidi sat down at the piano and expertly played his own 25-minute Concerto in G Minor, dedicated to Queen Elisabeth. Said his proud father, Frank Alfidi, standing in the wings: "It's the first time an American boy plays for royalty...
Masterpieces or not, Marks's contributions to Christmas have earned him close to $1,000,000 in the past decade. Says he: "What the hell, I can't control the American way of life. I'm not going to fight it; I'm going to join it." He began joining it when he left college (Colgate) to become a nightclub pianist. The lyrics to Rudolph, based on Robert L. May's children's book of the same name, occurred to him on the street one April day, and within a matter of hours...
Sticky Patch. Film insurance has, in fact, been a frisky business lately. Lloyd's several other English firms and San Francisco's Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.-the only American underwriter in the field-have been slogging about in what one English expert calls "a rather sticky patch." The death of Tyrone Power during Solomon and Sheba caused the biggest settlement in history: Fireman's Fund paid United Artists $1,219,172. The vaguely defined illnesses that put France Nuyen out of Suzie Wong cost the insurance companies nearly half a million-when Audrey Hepburn fell...
...well-modulated concern for the U.S. has long ago earned him eminence among the cognoscenti with time for learned journals and debate Now in his first book, We Hold These Truths (Sheed & Ward; $5), he is entermg a new, broader area of influence. In the months to come, serious Americans of all sorts and conditions-in pinstripes and laboratory gowns, space suits and housecoats-will be discussing his hopes and fears for American democracy. This m itself betokens a new era in the U S For Author Murray is a Roman Catholic priest and a Jesuit...