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...June 1954 story on Ampex pointed out that the boom in prerecorded tape was made possible by the company. Five dollars invested in a single share of Ampex in 1954 would now be worth $186. Similar stories have examined such rapid risers as Litton Industries (September 1958), Brunswick Corp. (September 1959), and a host of other growth companies...
Known as the University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics, Be-berman's nine-year-old project is an effort to give new life to the most irksome subject in U.S. high schools. Supported by $600,000 in grants from the Carnegie Corp., Beberman's system was taught this year to 8,000 students in 95 secondary schools across the country. Next year it will reach 120 schools. The only problem is a shortage of teachers versed in the method. At 34, Beberman has a full life's work cut out for him training them...
Among listed growth stocks, none has risen faster than one that appears on the ticker tape as FAV-for Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. An investor who bought $1,000 worth of Fairchild stock when it was selling at its 1958 low of 19½, and held onto it, last week would have had nearly $18,000 worth of stock. Fairchild makes a long list of imaginative products, ranging from a new silicon semiconductor to the first 8-mm. home sound motion-picture camera. It is one of the Street's most cherished buys, ranking with such rapid risers...
Many Faces. A man of amazing versatility, Fairchild invented the first practical aerial camera when only 23, and to carry it. designed the first U.S. plane with a cabin for both pilot and passengers. He founded Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. and Fairchild Camera, of which he owns 22%. He is the biggest stockholder in International Business Machines (99,864 shares), which his father helped found, and one of the biggest of Pan American World Airways, which he helped build...
Competing against such giants as General Dynamics Corp.'s Convair, North American Aviation, Inc. and General Electric Co., Acoustica won a contract to develop and produce a crucial system for the Air Force's Atlas ICBMs. Acoustica devised a series of ultrasonic sensors to measure the level of liquid oxygen and kerosene in the Atlas...