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...speck of germanium to do the work of the vacuum tube, but most of the rest of the circuitry was still needed. Last week Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed an entire milliwatt amplifier, circuitry and all, contained in a single block of germanium hardly bigger (one-thousandth of a cubic inch) than the head of a pin. A 5-watt amplifier is about the size of a dime...
...Natural black pearls and natural canary diamonds are rare. A black pearl four-tenths of an inch in diameter is worth up to $7,500 compared to $350 for a culture white pearl dyed black. A large canary diamond (not to be confused with off-color or cheap "yellow" diamonds) may bring ten times the price of a white stone. Diamonds can be synthetically colored by atomic radiation or dyed by a vacuum process similar to coating a photo lens...
Guam and is believed to include the deepest place in the earth's oceans, about 37,000 ft. below the surface. To cruise into this fearful place, seven miles below the sunlight, where the pressure reaches 16,000 Ibs. per square inch, is no mere stunt. No submarine today can cruise at bathyscaphe depths, but it may be desirable some time to build one that can. Long before that time comes, the Navy intends to be skilled in bathynavigation...
Shot putter Steve Cohen produced the second best indoor toss in Crimson history, a 51 ft., 10 in. effort, to take runner-up position. Although he added a quarter-inch to his University weight throw record, Stan Doten went unplaced with his 57 ft., 1 in. heave...
...Soviet Union. Last week the Russians offered to join our Alliance Club, in flagrant violation of the 1960 Summit Treaty. However, I assure you that our policy, conceived by the top machines in the country, is firmly rooted in our two great principles: the Give-em-an-inch-and-they'll-take-a-foot Doctrine, and the You-can-trust-the-Russians-as-far-as-you-can-throw-them Policy...