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Finney plays the part of Arthur Seaton, a machinist in a Midlands mill who slaves away at the lathe all week, but on Saturday night it's down to the pub for a glorious case of the screaming ab-dabs. After putting away ten pints of beer, Arthur falls...
Kippers & Champagne. Like Olivier, Finney is immensely versatile, is as good in modern plays as costume drama, and has a range of diction from Queen's English to Britannic Brando. But he has none of the smooth gloss of the classical acting tradition. He is relentlessly naturalistic, and his...
Not quite a year 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...
The key to the new revolution is "numerical control." The new machine needs an operator to show it only once how to do an intricate job. In the process its computer brain jots down symbolic numerical notes, thereafter can work automatically from "memory"-or learn a new task just as...
Heller gets his own money through regular banking channels at an average interest rate of 5^¼%, charges 12% interest for his loans. Some bankers consider the rate outrageous, but Heller's customers rarely complain. Says a Minnesota businessman now negotiating a Heller loan: "The bank interest, when you...