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...patients, aged three to twelve, had two things in common: they lived on U.S. Air Force bases; and they were suffering from nervousness, continuous fatigue, headaches, loss of sleep, belly aches, and sometimes vomiting. The medics at both Fairchild A.F.B., near Spokane, Wash., and Lackland A.F.B...
During a 50-year career, Inventor-Industrialist Sherman Fairchild, 68, has tinkered successfully with everything from aerial cameras to semiconductors...
...Fairchild's great dream is to assemble an Eastern aerospace company that would rival the West Coast's Lock heed, Boeing or North American. Toward that end Fairchild and his Fairchild Stratos Corp. have been buying into Long Island's Republic Aviation Corp., have acquired a controlling 21% of Republic's stock. Last week Fairchild's interest caused an upheaval at Republic. Faced by Fairchild's plans for changes at Republic, Mundy I. Peale, 58, Republic's president for 17 years, resigned...
While Peale flew to a Wyoming convention of the Conquistadores del Cielo, an organization of chiefs (and ex-chiefs) of aircraft companies, a quadrumvirate of directors, led by Fairchild Stratos President Edward Uhl, took over to run Republic without him. It will take some running...
While Uhl is trying to rescue Republic, he will also have to find ways to beef up his own Fairchild Stratos. Fairchild's most recent airplane, the F-27 short-haul commercial liner, was technically impressive but a financial red-inker. Fairchild sales have declined steadily for six years, although the company managed to earn $1,000,000 last year on a $62 million assortment of space and defense subcontracts. With no new major space contracts on the horizon to bid for, Sherman Fairchild's dream will have to remain just that for the time being...