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...very end. Kennedy's margin of one-tenth of i% of the two-party vote does not seem to us to make that prediction "wrong." We do indeed feel good about the closeness of our measurement-only 1.1% off the mark. In our business, one inch to the right of the bull's eye is as accurate as one inch to the left, and in a close election, one is as good as the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1960 | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...nearly made it the second try but toppled the bar with his mid-section. He was distracted on the final attempt, hit the crossbar with his knee going up, and had to settle for 7-1 1/2, which he had cleared earlier with an inch to spare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Downs Boston University; Mullins, Nichols, Doten Set Records | 12/17/1960 | See Source »

...book to one twenty-five-thousandth of the linear scale of the original "in such manner that it can be read by an electron microscope"; the other would go to the inventor of an electrically powered rotating motor no bigger than a cube one sixty-fourth of an inch high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Feynman Awards | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...quite a year later, staring down the barrel of a microscope, Feynman saw magnified 40 times a turntable motor that easily met his specifications. Devised by William H. McLellan, a 35-year-old engineer for a Pasadena research firm, the motor was fifteen thousandths of an inch square (smaller than a pencil dot), weighed 250 micrograms, and was powered by one thousandth of a watt. Working for two months in his spare time, Caltech Graduate McLellan used sharpened toothpicks, a watchmaker's lathe and a micro-drill press to fashion his flyspeck engine, which operates on the same "synchronous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Feynman Awards | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...This Happens . . ." Later that afternoon Adele Mailer described the details of that scrape to the police; she readily admitted that her husband had stabbed her with a 2-inch penknife soon after the party when she was preparing for bed. "He was depressed. He just came at me with a funny look in his eye. He didn't say a word. There was no reason. He just looked at me. Then he stabbed me." That night detectives found Mailer, neatly dressed and unshaven, sitting on a hospital bench near his wife's room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Of Time & the Rebel | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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