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...year-old L.W.C. Michelsen's offers a scientific index to its 1,000-odd spices, exhibits Australian apricots, French bread baked the same day in Paris-and, of all things, Heinz cream-of-mushroom soup. Rollenhagen's in West Berlin operates a year-round airlift of fresh strawberries, lettuce, mangoes, papaya and eggplant...
...several other directions. Last month a CAB examiner recommended that Continental and two other lines be granted the Pacific Northwest-to-Southwest routes, the last major runs in the U.S. still without through air service. Last week the Pentagon announced that Continental's minimum-guarantee contract to airlift troops to Viet Nam would be increased fourfold, to $30 million in 1967. And Los Angeles-based Continental announced a $64 million order for ten more jets. In all, Continental is investing $196 million to add 30 planes by 1968, doubling the size of its jet fleet...
...cargo to Southeast Asia. The military pays only about one-third as much per seat as civilians do, but because the lines can count on close-to-capacity loads and greater utilization of planes, the profits on military flights are not much lower than on civilian ones. Biggest military-airlift supplier is Pan Am, which already has 16 of its 100 jets on Viet Nam duty under a $44 million contract. Pan Am has cut its summer-peak transatlantic schedule from 288 to 266 flights a week...
Speed & Surprise. North Viet Nam's first major surprise was the 1st Air Cav's ability to airlift its 105-mm. howitzers over trackless jungle and keep the guns supplied with shells. The division moved its guns 67 times during the campaign -and only once overland. Some 33,000 shells were fired, 6,500 alone during a single, intense 24-hour engagement. The 1st Air Cav's battalions were shifted 40 times by helicopter, and 13,257 tons of supplies were airlifted to its men before the remnants of the Communist forces scuttled to safety in Cambodia...
...Castro's scare-talk? Partly, it was his way of taking Cuban minds off the island's economy, which slides deeper into chaos and ruin every week-despite $1,000,000 a day in Soviet aid. So desperate are conditions that by last week, when the Cuban airlift completed its first six months, 25,000 Cubans had left the country and almost 1,000,000 more-fully one-seventh of the Cuban population-were on the waiting list. Invasion talk was also a good way to justify the sleek, new, expensive arms and other military hardware pouring into...