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...Silicon. But the stuff gets even smaller. Integrated circuits that include everything, even transistors, are built into a single chip of silicon. Westinghouse starts with a sheet of silicon eight one-thousandths of an inch thick and about the diameter of a quarter. On top of this, an even thinner layer of extra-pure silicon is deposited by evaporation and covered with photosensitive masking material. The mask is removed in patterns, allowing successive parts of the silicon to be exposed to vapors, such as boron, that change its electrical properties. Some of the tiny areas become built-in transistors; others...
...javelin forces are even thinner, with Tom Holcombe the only returnee from last year's strong group of throwers. Holcombe will have to better his 200-foot efforts of a year ago to give the Crimson adequate representation in that event...
Downgrading New Hampshire. Barry himself thought it would be even thinner. He said last week that he would be happy to get out of New Hampshire with 35% of 100,000 expected votes and with seven of the state's 14 G.O.P. Convention delegates. He was also downgrading the importance of the New Hampshire primary with its crowd of contenders. Filing for the June 2 California primary, he said, "California, I think, is the important one. I think the person who wins in California will be the party nominee...
...that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's decision to let them build a Manned Orbiting Laboratory was hardly as generous as all that. Space, they figure, has belonged to them all along. They have always maintained that it is merely an extension of the atmosphere - a little higher and thinner, to be sure, but a proper place for Air Force operations...
...habit of treating American history like a stage production further discredits the book's judgments. Foreshadowing well-known historical events is thin entertainment and thinner history; passing gradiose sentences from a century-high pedestal of hindsight is bad technique and bad historical explanation. Two Roads does both too often. For example, it was "not only unnecessary but foolish" for Douglas backers to allow a change of procedure at the 1860 Democratic convention. At the beginning of 1860, 32 million "extras" stood behind the "odd stellar assortment" of political players in the sectional drama. And no moderate argument had "one-tenth...