Word: scale
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Marco). News often gave way to such oddball features as a lavishly illustrated Page One Halloween story on five nightgowned girls terrified by a "haunted" apartment. In a further effort to woo subscribers, the Chronicle offered a two-month subscription for the price of one, and gave away a scale-model San Francisco cable car to any new four-month subscriber with children...
When plans for the Week were first being framed, the program committee was thinking in terms of a $35,000 budget. Last spring, apparently, they traveled the foundation circuit, receiving expressions of interest, but no commitments. These nibbles, however, led them to plan for a large-scale program--until they returned to Harvard this Fall and found only $200 in their coffers...
...forth, but the signs of University Hall interest are encouragingly great. The disturbing fact, particularly for the ten per cent of the senior class that has expressed a desire to participate, is that time will soon run out, if the University wants to start some sort of small scale program next fall...
According to Lynch, the next step towards visual planning on a large scale is to form ad hoc committees of people with various backgrounds. By attempting to communicate with each other such committee may devise the graphic language needed to lift urban designing out of the stereotyped rut. They would also indicate the general form a city's development should take, be asserted...
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 of such research would be "enormous"-it would be convenient, he noted, to be able to store all the world's basic knowledge in the equivalent of a pocket-sized pamphlet-Feynman then and there impetuously offered two $1,000 prizes. One was to go to the first person...