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...himself as nothing more than "a greasy-thumb mechanic type of fellow." And there is William Shockley, who with two colleagues (John Bardeen and Walter Brattain) earned a 1956 Nobel Prize for creating the transistor?that hugely useful little solid-state device that has made possible everything from the fob-sized portable radio to the fantastic instrumentation that the U.S. packs into its space satellites. Shockley, who uses a yellow legal pad instead of a blackboard to draw his scientific diagrams, says candidly: "We simply wouldn't start the research if no application were seen...
...reporter bears little resemblance to his predecessor. He knows his subject and often brings to it, as in the case of Ben Fine (who holds seven honorary and one earned doctorate degrees), actual experience in teaching. At an educators' conference several years ago, when one speaker tried to fob off some phony statistics on teacher-student ratios, the assembled reporters not only challenged them but were able to show where he was wrong...
Fight & Frolic. With such heady hopes, the 1960 Democratic nomination is something far more than a token to fob off on anyone who will take it. Rather, it seems, in the glowing days of 1958 Democratic victory, the richest prize in U.S. politics-a prize worth fighting for. And Democrats being Democrats, loving a fight as much as a frolic, the battle for the 1960 nomination shaped up as one of the grandest, free-swinging rough-and-tumbles in years...
...attitude of the entire Soviet leadership, but only of a section which had imposed its will on the others." In the end, to help them all out, Tito was willing to give his blessing to a tough character named Erno Gero whom the Russians wanted to fob off as a "Titoist" to ease the discontent in Hungary. It was Gero who first ordered the army to fire on the Hungarian rebels...
...said: "The text of my lecture for tonight is 'Bread and Circuses.'" He harked back to the way the declining Roman emperors had taken Rome's mind off its troubles with gladiators and spectacles; he was disturbed, he said, that the Republicans might be trying to fob off Eisenhower upon "a docile, complacent, carefree people all happily chanting 'Peace, Prosperity and Progress-ain't it wonderful.' " Candidate Stevenson obviously felt he had a point: little outward concern was shown by the nation as a whole for the problems of its parts (in drought-dried...