Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth element maker, Albert Ghiorso, 45, has a Berkeley B.S. in electrical engineering, but he got into longhair physics by a back door. Son of a Vallejo, Calif, riveter, he went to work for a local electronics manufacturer and designed a successful commercial Geiger counter. While selling and servicing his product, he came in contact with the Radiation Lab, was fascinated, and got a job there. Working with top scientists, Ghiorso listened hard, and in the informal classroom he absorbed a higher education in higher physics. "I grew up with atomic energy," he says lightly...
...that the new moves will not seriously restrain some of the giddiest speculation. Wall Street is less worried about speculation in listed stocks-though they, too, have their fast ups and downs-than about the speculation in new issues. Most new offerings first appear on the volatile over-the-counter market, where they are harder to control than on the exchanges. Datamation floated 80,000 shares at 2 in February, now is selling at 12½-even though it was in the red last year. Sealed Air Corp., which offered 100,000 shares at 1 last October, is now selling...
...buyers of new issues seem to worry about such prudent measuring sticks as price-earnings ratios. Control Data, which hit the over-the-counter market at 1 a few years ago, recently hit 133-or 148 times its expected earnings of 90? a share. Some hot-selling companies have never seen anything but red ink. Says one broker: "I can understand a stock selling at 20 times earnings, or 50 or even 100 times earnings-but how do you compute the ratio of a company with no earnings...
...looks like Castro's back in town," reflected one of the officer's colleagues who met the counter-revolutionaries when they invaded the Square. A plea from Leigh B. Trevor '56 in front of President Pusey's home, after the early "Latin al, Pusey no" phase had fizzled, forced the ensuing march down Mass. Ave. "What I said in effect was that this kind of behavior is beneath the dignity of the Harvard student," Trevor reminisced after his triumph. Nine years ago, Trevor participated in the now legendary Pogofor-President-riot. "Then I was on your side...
...been suggested as the only means of undercutting Communist influence in Cuba. And always the reply came that it was too late. (Maybe a week ago, but now it's too late... Maybe before we established the embargo... Maybe before we broke relations... Maybe before we sanctioned the counter-Revolution, but... Maybe before...