Word: finks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Susannah Alden '57, Jane Borden '57, Estherann Fink '55, Jewelle Taylor '55 and Sheila Tobias '57 have been named to run for the post of Radcliffe delegate to the National Student Association. An alternate delegate to the N.S.A. will also be chosen, along with a new Council secretary, treasurer, and electoral chairman...
...germanium transistor, now five years old, has reached a ripe, mature age as electronic gadgets grow. But, asked the Philco Corp.'s Director of Research Donald G. Fink, "Is it a pimpled adolescent, now awkward, but promising future vigor? Or has it arrived at maturity, full of languor, surrounded by disappointments...
Most experts (Fink included) were at first convinced that the transistor was a prodigy. In time, they predicted, it would do anything as well as a vacuum tube. The experts were wrong, says Fink. When the first transistors were built, no one worried about moisture, and moisture has turned out to be a virulent poison. Now the experts are recommending "encapsulation" (a fancy word for careful packaging). Electronic engineers have also discovered that tiny wires break away from germanium crystals for no apparent reason, even when transistors are resting quietly in cotton wool. Worse still, the carefully processed germanium...
Here and there, the transistor is doing a job, e.g., in telephone exchanges and hearing aids. But like many another infant prodigy, it is stumbling and stammering badly on the awkward edge of adolescence. Still, neither Fink nor other scientists have lost all hope. Sobered by their own mistakes, the transistor's parents are busy turning the problem child into a responsible citizen...
...Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform), meeting in Estes Park, Coio.. heard its president rebuke "legislators who would seal the lips of prophetic clergymen." Said Rabbi Joseph L. Fink of Buffalo, in a reference to congressional criticism of Methodist Bishop G. Bromiey Oxnam (TIME, March 30): "For any Congressman, in furious self-rectitude, to intimidate clergymen with the threat of besmirching public investigation ... is an unprecedented violation of a Congressman's trust...