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Robert Noyce: Scientist Turned Investor. Noyce is the co-inventor of the integrated circuits that form the core of all modern computers, winner of the 1979 National Medal of Science and a co-founder of two pioneering and profitable California electronics companies, Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. Noyce, 55, also plays a less publicized role as a venture capitalist. With his success has come enormous wealth. His 1.5 million shares in Intel, where he now serves as vice chairman, are worth $60 million. Along with Arthur Rock, his friend of 30 years, Noyce in 1977 helped bankroll Diasonics, the medical-instrument...
...which he should excel. Even if he does not steal that show, Jackson has achieved enough notice to guarantee that he will not be lost or forgotten in the pack. At the least, Jackson may be able to help shape the party platform at the Democratic Convention. Stanford Political Scientist Seymour Martin Lipset thinks that Jackson has stepped ahead of Cranston, Hart and George McGovern as the most influential candidate from the party's left wing, which includes some 20% of Democratic voters. Predicts Lipset: "Whoever the nominee is will probably have to make Jackson some promises...
...French physicist who won the 1966 Nobel Prize for his studies of polarized light that paved the way for the development of the laser; in Bandol, France. Kastler was drawn to the study of light ever since becoming impressed as a child by a solar eclipse. A self-effacing scientist with outspoken political views, he was a pacifist who strongly opposed nuclear weapons and the war in Viet...
...theme of the unforgivable offense reverberates up and down the 20th century, perhaps because such a crime is thought to be more against man-or more accurately, more against the tribe-than against God. Harold R. Isaacs, a journalist and political scientist, observed in his 1975 book Idols of the Tribe: "We are experiencing on a massively universal scale a convulsive ingathering of people in their numberless grouping of kinds-tribal, racial, linguistic, religious, national. It is a great clustering into separatenesses that will, it is thought, improve, assure, or extend each group's power or place, or keep...
...game of name recognition is becoming a major industry in every field. First establish your base, as Congressman, actor, scientist, running back, swimsuit model, writer; then separate yourself from the ruck in a way that commands notice. Lee lacocca did it as a businessman selling Chryslers, so now we have what's-his-name who liked that razor so much he bought the company. Journalism loves expert opinions; an economist or an environmentalist no wiser than his colleagues can make it big if he has vast self-confidence and the gift of articulation. Politicians who become national figures must...