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...that found a use for what had previously been a scientific parlor stunt: the use of silicon and germanium as a photoelectric device. Along with his partners, Shockley won a Nobel Prize for turning hunks of germanium into the first transistors, the educated little crystals that are fast replacing vacuum tubes in the country's booming electronics industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: THE MEN ON THE COVER: U.S. Scientists | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...hardly wait to work "flashback-wards" into a conversation. "Vacuum keening" may take a little more time, but it's worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1960 | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...many memorable faces-faces of hate, sorrow, bewilderment-that dominated a new, hour-long documentary seen on ABC-TV last week. Billed as a "film editorial," it was designed to give viewers a look at the dangerous anti-American passions mounting throughout Latin America in the vacuum of U.S. policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Two Men & a Camera | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...support it, is collapsing under the burden-"poor little conscience," says Murray. Only the monistic state threatens to remain. If this goes on, a spiritual vacuum will grow at the heart of life and into it will rush violence-"the mark of the Architect of Chaos, the Evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: City of God & Man | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

Dominican Republic. Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo has had 30 years to perfect his military defenses, but he is still mortal; when he goes, by revolt or old age, the vacuum he leaves is all too likely to be filled by pro-Castro Marxists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Balance Sheet | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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