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...transistor grew out of a "parlor trick" in Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1940. One of the scientists there "had a little chunk of black stuff with a couple of contacts on it," recalls Bell Physicist Walter H. Brattain, "and when he shone a flashlight on it, he got a voltage. I didn't believe it." But Brattain never forgot, and seven years later (a delay enforced by the war), using the same "black stuff"-silicon-in an electrolytic solution, he got the same effect: a current was produced ten times as great as that from any other photoelectric device...
...light of those precedents, the Kennedy-Johnson marriage did not seem so astonishing after all. Thus, as in most instances of sock-and-swat Democratic brawls, the bright sun of unity shone down on the happy pair as they hopped onto their steamroller and gaily left town for their honeymoon...
When the American Medical Association met in Dallas last week for its annual winter clinical sessions, the sun shone brilliantly if coolly over what Texans call the "Land of the Big Sky." But big sky and bright sun are far from being an unmixed blessing, warned Houston's Dr. John M. Knox, a dermatology professor at Baylor University College of Medicine. Along with other skin specialists in the Southwest, he is seeing more and more harmful effects from exposure to the sun, now that leisure time is increasing and proportionately more of it is spent in "healthy" outdoor activity...
Draw the Shades. In Hull, Que., when townspeople were baffled by a half-blackened street light, police discovered that a homeowner, irritated because the light shone in his bedroom at night, had painted it black with a brush tied to a 16-ft. pole...
Past midnight, the bright white light atop the Capitol dome still shone over Washington, signaling that Congress was still in session. On the Senate floor, after six months of stalling, wrangling and maneuvering, U.S. history's bitterest battle over confirmation of a presidential appointment marched toward the showdown...