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...four members of the committee three students and alumni representative Herbert P. Gleason '50--have committed them selves to maintaining the ban on loans...
...mysterious surge in price has spurred memories of the abortive attempt by Bunker and Herbert Hunt to corner the silver market in 1980. Now, as then, an unidentified buyer has been spending huge amounts of money to drive up the price of a metal. More than $500 million has been invested, and 30,000 tons of tin have been stockpiled in European warehouses. Speculators who gambled that the price of tin would soon fall face financial ruin. Major tin consumers have escalating costs. Says a spokesman for U.S. Steel, which makes tin-plated products: "Of course this is hurting...
...Scrutiny of the size, shape and distribution of blood spatters tells much about the location and position of a person Involved in a crime and thus may dispute a defendant's version of what happened. Blood that travels at an angle, for example, leaves an elliptical stain. Consultant Herbert Leon MacDonell, 53, of Corning, N.Y., the leading expert, is now sought out in more than 100 homicide cases a year. At the trial of Jean Harris last year he tried to persuade the jury-unsuccessfully-that blood marks jibed with Harris' claim that the shooting of Dr. Herman...
...saga of the Army's M2 and M3 Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) systems illustrates how costs can escalate out of control. "It is a horror story of the worst kind," says Major General Herbert McChrystal Jr., retired, who was an Army director of planning. The original plans, drawn up in 1972, envisioned an armored personnel carrier costing $400,000. As soon as development began, the Army review committee, a constantly changing board of top Pentagon staffers, began reconsidering exactly what jobs the vehicle should do. Should troops fight from the vehicle or get out? Should there be gun ports...
...range of other industries is also growing up in the region. Some say it should really be called the Siliclone Valley because of the 16 genetic-engineering companies now located there. Robert Swanson, an M.B.A. from M.I.T., and Biochemist Herbert Boyer, for example, started Genentech. Collagen Corp., a bio-medical products company in Palo Alto, makes a biological implant called Zyderm, which helps remove the effects of scars from the human skin. Companies like Coherent Radiation in Palo Alto are doing pioneering work in the industrial use of lasers...