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...field with Motorola and Fairchild Camera, engineers have developed a piece of silicon the size of a split pea into which they have fused the equivalent of 38 transistors, five capacitors and 26 resistors-a complete circuit one-thousandth the size of a similar vacuum-tube circuit and one-hundredth that of a transistorized...
...meet THEM by building a giant Jacob's ladder to heaven, raves on like a real estate developer. "Four soaring arches spanning the state," he proposes, "topped by a golden latticework of jointed metal. Build it up in easy stages. Hydraulic elevators. Restaurants and resthouses at every five-hundredth level...
German Chemists Peter Karlson and Adolf Butenandt of the University of Munich collected three tons of silkworm pupae, ground up the little animals, then carefully processed the mess to extract 100 milligrams (one three-hundredth of an ounce) of a hormone called ecdysone. They knew ecdysone played a large part in the silkworm's life cycle, and when they discovered that it was remarkably similar to human sex hormones, they were fascinated. But what, if anything, did it have to do with DNA's genetic code...
Even so, the varsity could easily lose today's contest at Amherst and Munro may well have to wait until next Wednesday before winning his hundredth game as a University coach. Amherst is always good and Harvard never loses to Tufts...
...Having traipsed the length and breadth of England for Michael Ramsey's biography (Hundredth Archbishop of Canterbury), I am well aware of fascinating yet frequently elusive qualities of the Primate and his peculiar vineyard. These are matters of spirit and fact that TIME has seized, denned, and eloquently interpreted in its wonderfully readable report [Aug. 16] on His Grace's inspired leadership...