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...Fencing [April 3] is not only an athletic feat; it is an art, a skill, a fierce and fast-precision thing with judgments and reactions timed to the quarter-inch...
...Alaska quake was a bell ringer too. Seismologist Jack Oliver of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory says that the whole earth vibrated every 54 minutes. The maximum surface movement was about one-third of an inch and was very gradually diminishing toward the fadeout point...
Steve, a hippic musician currently shacked up with a stripper named Barbara Seville, is accosted by Natalie in a Union hiring hall. "Were was it now?" he muses lecherously. "Grossingers? Brooklyn? The Catskills?" "Never mind that!" hisses Natalie, every inch the petulant mousketeer. "I'm going to have a baby...
...being shoved aside by modern micromodules, tiny gadgets that electronic engineers believe will soon replace most of the tangled guts of familiar apparatus. Least radical of the miniature gadgets are the "thin-film circuits." In the Philco version they are glass or ceramic sheets a few hundredths of an inch thick, covered with foil-thin layers of tantalum, chromium and gold. On top of the gold is a photosensitive material that becomes insoluble when exposed to light. The diagram of a desired circuit is printed by strong light on the photosensitive surface. Then the unexposed parts are dissolved...
Integrated Silicon. But the stuff gets even smaller. Integrated circuits that include everything, even transistors, are built into a single chip of silicon. Westinghouse starts with a sheet of silicon eight one-thousandths of an inch thick and about the diameter of a quarter. On top of this, an even thinner layer of extra-pure silicon is deposited by evaporation and covered with photosensitive masking material. The mask is removed in patterns, allowing successive parts of the silicon to be exposed to vapors, such as boron, that change its electrical properties. Some of the tiny areas become built-in transistors...