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Prews are now operating in each province of the Delta IV Corps, and all are volunteers who know the terrain well. At first the Prews dressed as they pleased, but after a few instances of being mistaken for Viet Cong by U.S. helicopter gunners, they adopted tiger suits or the black pajamas of simple peasants as uniforms. Their exploits have not only crimped the morale of the Viet Cong, but beefed up that of the government's regular forces. And their effectiveness cannot always be measured by a single night's work. Two days after the Prews...
...team of Harvard scientists headed by Leo Goldberg, Higgins Professor of Astronomy at the Harvard Observatory, is currently analyzing data transmitted from orbiting Solar Observatory IV, a satellite launched last week...
...Harvard experiment, one of several based on the 599 pound satellite known as OSO IV, involves scanning the sun's surface closely during a period of about six months, in order to supplement observations made from the earth's surface...
Only when Harold Sydney Geneen, 57, goes fishing off Cape Cod aboard his $100,000 yacht, Genie IV, does he temporarily travel without his attache cases. "Otherwise, my office is where I am," explains Geneen. Inasmuch as he is board chairman and president of the globe-girdling International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., that could be almost anywhere. A man who walks fast, talks fast and thinks fast, the sturdy (5 ft. 10 in., 180 lbs.) Geneen churns with the ambition of a man half his age. In the space of eight years, he has rejuggled ITT from top to bottom, transforming...
Much of ITT's growth has come from Geneen's success in playing the merger game. In all, the skipper of the Genie IV has reeled in 44 companies, ranging across fields as diverse as auto rentals, mutual-fund management and airport parking. The biggest catch of all-ITT's proposed merger with American Broadcasting Cos.-has so far eluded...