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...long been a bombshell, on TV's Flamingo Road among other places. But in Time Bomb, an NBC-TV movie that will be aired later this month, Morgan Fairchild, 34, will add a more literal meaning to her reputation as a mankiller. Fairchild plays the leader of a gang of gun-toting terrorists who attempt to hijack a truckload of weapons-grade plutonium in Texas. "I hope it doesn't seem too Hollywood," Fairchild says. "I have this little porcelain face, and short of taking a hammer to it, there's nothing you can do." Still...
Professors said the new appointment was in part the result of new building space and modernized facilities that are available because of the construction of the Fairchild Biochemistry Laboratories and the current $25 million renovations of the Biological Laboratories...
...tempting talented employees with promises of quick riches. He says that venture capitalists are in the process of wrecking some good high-tech firms. Of course, several of Intel's senior executives are partners in venture capital funds. Moreover, the company was started by two scientists who left Fairchild Camera and Instrument...
Robert Noyce: Scientist Turned Investor. Noyce is the co-inventor of the integrated circuits that form the core of all modern computers, winner of the 1979 National Medal of Science and a co-founder of two pioneering and profitable California electronics companies, Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. Noyce, 55, also plays a less publicized role as a venture capitalist. With his success has come enormous wealth. His 1.5 million shares in Intel, where he now serves as vice chairman, are worth $60 million. Along with Arthur Rock, his friend of 30 years, Noyce in 1977 helped bankroll Diasonics, the medical-instrument...
...what a string of hits. In 1957 Rock assisted in arranging the financing for Fairchild Semiconductor, one of the first companies to make the silicon chips that are the building blocks for modern computers. In 1960 Rock helped finance Teledyne, a California conglomerate that makes a range of products that include Water Piks and jet engines. Last year it had sales of $3 billion. In 1961, the year he co-founded the Davis & Rock venture capital firm, Rock put up $280,000 to help start Scientific Data Systems, a computer maker; in 1969 the company was sold for some...