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When scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories produced the first germanium transistor, they knew they had found a long-awaited short cut through the great glass jungle of the electronics age (TIME, Feb. 11). With the ease of the old-fashioned carborundum crystal, it can change alternating current to direct; and like a vacuum tube, it can amplify faint, fluctuating currents. But where the vacuum tube is often bulky, fragile and uses large amounts of power, the rugged little transistor, no bigger than a thumbnail, works on minute amounts of energy. Last week in Princeton, N.J., the Radio Corp...
...17th century farmhouse in a valley near Henley-on-Thames. Gradually, the nature he saw around him drew him off on another track. His new style set out to blend geometric designs with the more amorphous shapes of reality-or, as he once expressed it, "a combination of a crystal and a potato, with neither predominating too much...
...with the Marker. Officials of the Federazione Italiana Pesca Sportiva (Italian Sport Fishing Federation) dropped a weighted measuring line 148 ft. down into the crystal-clear water. Bucher, now 40, and eager to win back the record he once held at 98 ft., failed on his first try; the pressure dislodged his mask. After a half-hour rest, he went over the side again, close to the measuring cable. Down he went, while photographers with special equipment recorded the descent. After a long minute and 17 seconds, while anxious officials scanned the choppy water, Bucher bobbed to the surface, beaming...
...Blue). At the summit of his elongated Madonna is the head of his wife, Gala, gazing heavenward; her body is being reconstructed in a sunburst of softly colored atomic corpuscles. The body is still transparent and through it, Christ can be seen floating above an altar in a crystal cathedral. At the base of the altar lap the waters of Port Lligat, and rising out of them are huge rhinoceros horns...
...child to copy on a miniature blackboard. The Tom Thumb typewriter is a real working model ($19.95). Prospective architects can try their hand with "Blockbusters," big, cor rugated-paper blocks capable of holding more than 200 lbs. (twelve blocks for $5.95). Radio hams can assemble their own crystal sets ($2.50). One of the best bargains for budding mechanics: the plas tic "Fix-It" automobile. Its battery, radi ator and gas tank can all be filled; wheels can be removed with the help of a minia ture plastic jack and other tools. Price...