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...rolled and pleated in-tenor with a cocktail bar, tape recorder I usually play rock 'n' roll") and a white imitation angora rabbit fur rug The fur was my wife's idea," says Lee Betty has taken a right lot of interest m this car." The chromium-plated engine is treated as well as the passengers The engine compartment is lined with red imitation rabbit...
...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, and the bare gold and chromium on top can be etched...
Where all the films are removed, the remaining glass is a nonconductor. When a section of tantalum remains, it acts as a resistor. A strip of gold and chromium is a good conductor, and serves as a thin wire. Capacitors can be made by covering tantalum with an oxide that acts as an insulator and then laying on a fresh film of gold. To make a complete circuit, tiny silicon transistors are electrically bonded to the proper sites. Complicated as it is, the process is wholly automatic, and up to one hundred microcircuits can be manufactured on a piece...
...form. Forty years later, Chicago's 1933 Century of Progress Exposition helped spread the gospel of contemporary architecture with its buildings in the "modernistic" style - forests of blue mirrors, thickets of chromium stair rails, and jungles of neon tubing; it also gave America the fan dance. New York's 1939 fair brought a sense of monumentality combined with reason to architecture, with its carefully planned plazas of glass brick and fluted stucco. It also floated the Aquabelle...
...This is a pity because in recent years, as his novels get worse and worse, his stories have been getting better and better. In an astonishing output-four volumes since 1960-of brief encounters and broader recollections, his writing has moved way beyond the burled walnut finish and the chromium-plated dialogue that have made him famous...