Word: offing
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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...
Not 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...
Like the good scientist he is, Feynman professed to be delighted that his challenge had been met, last week sent off to McLellan a personal check for $1,000. But in an accompanying letter of congratulations, impetuous Prizegiver Feynman earnestly warned: "Don't start writing small. I don'...
For most of the day, the plump eleven-year-old crawled around the bathroom floor steering the electric toy automobile with the flashing headlights. The next evening, dressed in a white jacket, short black pants, white socks and black shoes, he made his way to Brussels' Palais des Beaux...
It was not, of course, the first time that Joey Alfidi of Yonkers, N.Y. had conducted a symphony orchestra (he made his first major solo flight at seven with the Symphony of the Air), nor the first time he has played one of his numerous compositions. In Brussels, where he...