Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bullish 1965, the No. 1 glamour stock was Fairchild Camera and Instrument, which soared from a low of 27 ¼ to a high of 165 ¼, the biggest percentage gain of the year. The company owed its gargantuan gain to its pinpoint-tiny microcircuits-the new electronic marvels that bond and fuse complete, complex electrical circuits onto a sliver of silicon. In early 1966, Fairchild stock continued to rocket, finally hit 2161, a hefty 65 times earnings, before it began to recede. Last week it went into a big fall, and took other electronics stocks down with...
...slowly gained strong support from several influential Faculty Committee members. Seltzer made it immediately clear that as director of the Loeb he would see some of his plans put into execution, at least in miniature. He said he hoped to speed the Loeb's development into a "truly educational instrument in the study of dramatic literature...
...viewpoints with an equal dose of radical solutions so as to make their general philosophy totally unpalpable to the community. Assuredly, the group had quite a few serious questions to ask our controversial Secretary of Defense, but the street or an angry mob was neither the environment nor the instrument by which to discuss these topics...
...anybody else who happens to be onstage. During a Cleveland Orchestra concert six months ago, the E string on Soloist Isaac Stern's violin suddenly snapped in the final movement of a Brahms concerto. Concertmaster Druian quickly gave Stern his Stradivarius, passed the disabled instrument to Assistant Concertmaster Daniel Majeske and continued playing on Majeske's violin. Majeske replaced the string and-switch, switch-Stern finished with a flourish on his fiddle, having missed only one measure of music. Says Druian, with the understatement typical of the supercool concertmaster: "It's all part...
...extolling the $5,000,000 school's virtues and inviting white students to enroll. Windowless, air-conditioned and soundproofed, the building would create an ideal learning environment. It would have one teacher for every 24 students, extra teachers for tutorial work, offer independent study, foreign languages and musical-instrument instruction. Not a single white family signed up to send kids to Harlem...