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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...
...said Meloy later. "Where the V.C. got all the ammunition, I've got no earthly idea." Six times the Red soldiers launched human wave charges, yelling and screaming above the crackle of bullets. Meloy's men held them off until reinforcements arrived, permitting a U.S. withdrawal under pinpoint artillery cover, but three of his companies took heavy casualties in the encounter. But so did the enemy: in some 30 hours of intermittent battle, Meloy, his command eventually grown to eleven companies, accounted for some 200 Red dead...
Province-by-province surveys are compiling accurate road maps-not so much for autos but to pinpoint emergency landing strips. Combat mobility studies have determined that military vehicles able to cross a 22-in.-high paddy dike are capable of crossing 95% of the dikes encountered in Thailand...
...technology plans to recommend new methods of preventing crime, locating and returning stolen goods, improving communication, and processing information about offenders. At a recent meeting of the National Symposium of Science and Criminal Justice, speakers told of ideas for making automobiles theft proof, computer linked alarms that would pinpoint unseen law violations, non-lethal gases to neutralize intruders and chemicals that would color a fleeing vehicle or leave a burglar with a distinctive, unshakable odor...
...order to pinpoint the source of the mysterious Scorpio X rays, a group of scientists led by Physicist Riccardo Giacconi, of Cambridge's American Science & Engineering, Inc., lofted a NASA Aerobee rocket 150 miles above the earth-well above the atmospheric blanket that X rays cannot penetrate...