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...other components had to be wired together by hand. Enter Kilby, a newly hired engineer at Texas Instruments, who followed a hunch that you could eliminate some of the wires by sticking transistors onto a sliver of germanium--a close cousin of silicon--and etching circuits onto this crystal "chip," which was about half the size of a paper clip. Many of his peers dismissed such a simple solution as naive, and his microchip "provided much of the entertainment at major technical meetings over the next few years," Kilby later wrote. But Kilby ended up with the last laugh...
...nonagenarian jokester have any pointers for the Great Communicator? Explains Burns: "I don't tell him what to do, and he doesn't tell me how to sing the Red Rose Rag." Also doing their schtik are Milton Berle, Bill Cosby, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Walter Matthau and Billy Crystal. Burns will sing a song or two, puff his omnipresent cigar, and maybe even dance. But do not expect him to wax nostalgic. He has just signed a five-year contract with Caesars Palace and has booked the London Palladium for Jan. 20. 1996, his 100th birthday. "I've lived...
...seas--in Feininger, the symbolism of the German romantics, especially of Caspar David Friedrich, is passed through an illustrative language based on cubism. It is legible cubism, shorn of its ambiguities. Under the modern surface, there is always a hint of the sublime, the transcendental, perilously near to kitsch--Crystal Cathedral uplift, the fount of much hotel-lobby art and many a "serious" get-well card...
Most people consider the plight of the homeless anything but a laughing matter, but for Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal it only hurts when they stop laughing. The three comedians were in Washington last week to promote a three-hour telethon they will host on HBO to raise money for health-care organizations serving the homeless in 18 cities. Scheduled to air from Los Angeles next week, Comic Relief will feature a gaggle of gagsters for every age group, from Michael J. Fox to Henny Youngman. HBO will let cable operators make the broadcast available to all subscribers...
...BORN. To Crystal Gayle, 35, sultry-voiced country-pop singer (Making Up for Lost Time), and Bill Gatzimos, 33, her manager-husband: their second child, first son; in Nashville. Name: Christos James. Weight...