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...wiring, re-enacted the blaze in a mock-up spacecraft, exhaustively analyzed the innards of the burned Apollo spacecraft. NASA also stripped down two intact production models. In one, inspectors discovered more than 2,000 "squawks," or lapses in quality control. Hundreds of the complaints were of the paint-fleck variety, but there were also such serious flaws as improperly fitted electrical connections and exposed conductors...
Down-Under Glider. The also-flowns were as notable as the winners. One contestant sent in a dollar bill folded into a glider with the explanation: "It goes fast." There was a flying-saucerlike "Frisbee Flyer"-two paper plates and an infinitesimal folded fleck of foil only one-eighth of an inch long by one-sixteenth of an inch wide-made, appropriately, by Aerospace Corp.'s Space
Fairchild on the ground floor in miniature silicon transistors, which are more effective than the original germanium variety; last year Fairchild had 30% of the booming U.S. market for silicon transistors. Fairchild's prize division also accounts for one-third of the market for integrated circuits, which are fleck-sized components that do the work of many transistors, and a series of them hooked together could reduce the innards of a TV set to the size of a cookie. The company has greatly broadened demand since 1964 by shrinking the average price of integrated circuits from...
...gram. It is a marvel at detecting the presence of poison, easily spotting a thimbleful dissolved in ten tank cars of water. Neutron analysis can get along with specimens far smaller than those needed for conventional chemical analysis: a fragment of lint, a strand of hair, a fleck of paint will suffice. Happily, the radioactivity caused by the neutrons soon dies down, and once studied, the evidence can safely be brought into a courtroom...
Dormitory representatives also announced recently: Miriam-Ann Fleck '64, Margaret von Szeliski '64, Barnard; Nancy H. Doe '64, Bertram; Carol D. Goodman '64, Aimee M. Wilson '64, Briggs Elizabeth M. Denny '66, Nancy K. Nichols '64, Camille F. Staciva '65, Cabot; Janet B. Darley '63, Virginia S. Jordan '64, Mary F. Winsor '65, Comstock; man '64, Emily L. Delman '66, Norris '65, Holmes; Helen S. Miranda C. Sampsell '65, man '65, Moors; Evelyn R. Rosamond Welchman...