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...Continental Commotion. Judging from the commotion that Big Lift caused all over the Continent (see cover story), Adams certainly had a point. Even before the operation got off the ground, statesmen in the NATO capitals were beginning to press the U.S. for assurances that it did not presage any large-scale pull-out of American combat troops from overseas bases. A slew of Administration officials, from Dean Rusk on down, hastened to offer such assurances, but nobody really seemed convinced...
New Phase. Perched as they are beside the Iron Curtain, the West Germans are more sensitive to the subtle shifts in East-West relations than any other people in Europe. The least concession to Russia brings suspicions of a sellout. Hence West Germany's anguish last week at the...
But the cost of maintaining the U.S. Seventh Army in Germany, with its five combat divisions plus huge additional air and ground support groups, runs into hundreds of millions of dollars a year. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has long been convinced that a substantial reduction of this force...
Engineer's Company. So Italianate are the new Rover lines that test cars ran for months on the Continent with out anyone's ever suspecting that they were in fact new Rovers. Past Rover styling had been so stodgy that it appealed mostly to old ladies and to...
Priced at $3,540 in Britain (including a $615 purchase tax), the new Rover sells for less than the cheapest Jaguar, and on the Continent should be highly competitive with the small Mercedes and Citroën. Rover executives worry whether the 2000's flashy good looks will steal...