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Wilson, the winningest and losingest coach in Harvard hoop history, had long been a target of student criticism for his teams' consistent failures. His removal intitiated an unusually large number of coaching changes...
...defied the Dow julgment with similar obstructionist tactics, despite the Administration's refusal to spell out guidelines on unacceptable demonstrations and their consequences. Dow was primarily a symbolic protest aimed against the Vietnam horror and against the unresponsiveness of established authority to anti-war demands. The students' basic target was the war, not the University...
Schumacher's gun has a special capability: its electron beam maintains its focus and power for a short distance after it squirts out of the gun barrel and into the atmosphere. In earlier experimental cutters the beam lost its power almost immediately in collisions with air molecules; the target material had to be placed inside a vacuum chamber along with the rest of the gun's components. And since the chamber's size was always limited, so was the size of the job it could handle...
...stops dirt and debris from being sucked back into the vacuum. No wider than a sixteenth of an inch, the electron beam, says Schumacher, can cut iron bars, granite blocks or slabs of concrete. Only requirement is that the gun be kept virtually on top of its target. From a half inch out, it can burrow up to four inches into the toughest stone in less than a minute. It also works underwater, has no recoil, and does its job in uncanny quiet. With his 9-kw. laboratory model for a prototype, says Schumacher, he could easily build...
...value is about $350 million-which puts it in the range that an acquisitive-minded smaller company could manage. Moreover, in an age of computers, Western Union's extensive cable and microwave circuits are a logical way to hook computers together. Not surprisingly, Western Union has been the target of two determined takeover attempts, one of which last week verged on success...