Word: fc
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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...
...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...
...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...