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William B. Shockley is a short, gentle-looking 63-year-old professor of electrical engineering at Stanford. In the 1940s he helped develop the transistor and won the Nobel Prize for his work. In the mid-60s, Shockley shifted his focus from his field of expertise to an area he knew almost nothing about--genetics...
...included 17 teen-agers dead and 70 wounded. Five of the wounded died afterward in hospitals. All three commandos had been shot dead inside the school. The national wound for all of Israel was almost as great. In Jerusalem, Israel's Parliament suspended debates as Knesset members hunched over transistor radios to pick up news reports. The funeral of the dead students next day was an occasion for national mourning ? and national anger. In Safad, where 10,000 people gathered as the children were buried, frantic mourners disrupted...
...Onoda, a modern incarnation of a loyal samurai, knew precisely what the situation was. During his long years in hiding, he had listened on a stolen transistor radio to the Japanese language service of the BBC. He had even refused to respond to a $400,000 effort by Japan's Welfare Ministry to persuade him, via loudspeakers, search parties and air-dropped leaflets, that the war was truly over and that he should surrender and come home. The ministry had known for some time that he was alive because the Philippine police had reported occasional gun battles involving...
...military preparedness, Chiang has based Taipei's continued survival on economic strength. Indeed, after Japan, Taiwan is Asia's greatest success story. Foreign trade in 1973 rocketed to $8.3 billion, up from $5.9 billion the year before. In some industrial products, such as television sets and transistor radios, Taiwan has already surpassed Japan as the main foreign supplier of the U.S. One gloomy note in this otherwise bright picture is the prospect of curtailed foreign markets in 1974-a likely result of the energy crisis and a 30% increase in consumer prices between January and February. The price...
William Shockley, inventor of the transistor and would-be geneticist, claims to have discovered that "the world spins on a teensy, weensy electric motor." "Sure, I'm saying this partly for shock value," Shockley says, "but, gosh, how else do you explain a play title like Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, or a movie like The Day the Earth Stood Still...