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Word: fc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only two or three shades of "pass." Lectures will be replaced, as much as possible, by secton-type seminar meetings, and when lectures are held, the hope is to make them "happenings" --movies, debates, discussions between students and faculty members, and the like. Innovation is the key at FC, innovation in terms of involving students more in the process of teaching...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: Community College for the Capital | 10/19/1968 | See Source »

...citadel of the U.S. Marines in Viet Nam and a major launching pad for the air war on the Communist North. In scarcely more than five minutes, the Communists fired at least 50 122-mm. rockets, dropping them among the parked planes with pinpoint accuracy. Several Air Force 4-FC Phantoms and Marine F-8 fighter-bombers, caught fully fueled and with their bomb racks loaded, were blown high into the air by the explosions. One rocket crashed into an ammo dump, exploding the 500-and 750-lb. bombs in a giant fireball that was visible many miles away. Five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Versatile Enemy | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...first chairman of Inter national Business Machines and made him by inheritance the largest single stockholder in IBM (167.000 shares now worth $85.5 million). Besides refining his taste for good living and pretty girls, Fairchild tended his investments wisely, personally developed the first plane with an enclosed cabin (the FC-1), manufactured the C-119 Flying Boxcar, and built superb but too costly hi-fi equipment. Like many inventors, Fairchild was a better creator than administrator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Mighty Miniatures | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

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