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...company originated as a track builder for Western railroads. It undertook dozens of rail projects, notably a 725-mile stretch (with 45 tunnels) of Western Pacific line through the Sierra Nevada and the Feather River Canyon. In the 1930s, Utah started its all-out expansion. It became one of Six Companies, Inc., a consortium that also included Henry Kaiser and Morrison-Knudsen Co., which bid jointly on Hoover, Bonneville and many another mammoth engineering project in the booming West. The Six Companies have long since separated, but Utah is still heavily involved in construction. It currently has a $102 million...
...clouded by the enigmatic status of the war itself. No one, from Paris to Washington to Saigon, can say with any certitude at this point whether the recent reduction of military activity in South Viet Nam represents a planned de-escalation by Hanoi or whether it presages yet another all-out offensive...
Proxy Wars. Since the major nuclear powers are deathly afraid of a head-on clash, the Mydanses believe that only total derangement on one or both sides will bring back all-out war. Instead, wars of the future will follow the pattern established since World War II-a conflict fought with limited means and often ending indecisively...
...Green Berets still do their fighting mostly on the fringe of the big battlefields: quick, sharp clashes in the jungle along infiltration routes used by the Communists. Occasionally, one of their isolated redoubts is overrun (A Shau two years ago, Lang Vei this year) by an all-out attack. More oftenone is hit by rapid mortar and small-arms harassment probes, which are usually repulsed by the garrison. The camps are generally supplied by air, which provides the only link with the outside world...
...latest reminder of the city's vulnerability came last month when the regime of Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht began requiring West Germans to buy transit visas and pay cargo taxes when traveling or moving goods across East German territory to West Berlin. For a city that withstood an all-out Communist blockade in 1948-49, Ulbricht's new restrictions in themselves are little more than a nuisance. Nonetheless, they dramatized anew the perilous state of West Berlin's economic links-a fact that has frightened off both industry and labor...