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...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 than a pencil dot), weighed 250 micrograms, and was powered by one thousandth of a watt. Working for two months in his spare time, Caltech Graduate McLellan used sharpened toothpicks, a watchmaker's lathe and a micro-drill press to fashion his flyspeck engine, which operates on the same "synchronous" principle that powers...
Competition with Giants. Like many another electronics firm, Digitronics was founded only four years ago by three bright young engineers. Unlike many of the defense-oriented companies that dot Boston's route 128 (TIME, July 13, 1959), Digitronics' business is virtually all in the civilian field, where its sales volume has grown from $750,000 the first year to an estimated $2,000,000. From a first-year loss of $60.000, profits rebounded to an estimated $115,000. Digitronics Chair- man Eric H. Haight has found that his company can compete with the giants in the field by designing machines...
...month after the Organization of American States voted sanctions against the Dominican Republic in an effort to topple Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 69, the strongman is still in charge. Billboards dot the Dominican countryside with sycophantic testimonials: "Trujillo, Greatest Man of the Continent," "Trujillo, Dominican Glory," "Trujillo, Your People Adore...
...have "a pitiably short half-life in memory." Indeed, the only facts worth knowing are those that reconstruct details when needed, e.g., basic scientific formulas. So too, the child must be given the kind of facts that lure him onward. It is one thing to show him a black dot on the map called Chicago. It is altogether different to teach him the basics of social and economic geography-and then give him a map with physical features but no place names. He may locate Chicago at the junction of the three lakes, near the Mesabi range...
Winging from New York to Los Angeles last week were Actress Joan Crawford, fiftyish but as chic as ever, and her adopted 13-year-old twins, Cathy and Cindy, wearing polka-dot dresses. While Mother, a director of the Pepsi-Cola Co. (once headed by her late fourth husband, Alfred Steele), was heading West to promote soft-drinking, her daughters were just taking a final fling before going back to school...