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...Army is enthusiastic about the plan. Army Secretary Cyrus Vance al-jeady considers the concept historic in its potential. "If the history of warfare shows one constant," he says, "it is that victory on the battlefield goes to the side that can best maneuver and employ its firepower. This has been demonstrated by Caesar and his legions, by Genghis Khan, by Stonewall Jackson in his valley campaign." Similarly, Lieut. General Dwight Beach, chief of Army Research and Development, rates the experiment as significant as "the introduction of the first tank and chemical warfare in World War I or the Panzer...
Spending to Save. The clear design of C. & O. Chairman Cyrus Eaton, 79. and President Walter Tuohy, 61, is to merge their line with the B. & O., but not until they have restored the B. & O. to financial health. The B. & O. needs quite a bit of shaping up. Weighed down by $418 million in debt and strapped for cash to carry out overdue modernization programs, the once mighty B. & O. has watched its revenues melt from $465 million in 1956 to $351 million in 1961, and seen its long string of profits turn into a 1961 loss...
Died. Aleksandr Vasilievich Topchiev, 55, chemist credited with a major role in developing the liquid rocket fuels that enabled the Soviets to build their huge space vehicles; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Topchiev was a frequent visitor to the Pugwash conferences staged in Nova Scotia by Russophile Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, where the chemist enjoyed preaching that science is above national politics. But he had a pragmatic side: in 1958, a fellow Russian remarked that what he feared most was an accidental and irresponsible attack on Russia by the U.S., and Topchiev grinned back: "What I fear most is responsible...
...windswept mountains and fertile valleys of the Iranian province of Fars, where Cyrus founded the Persian empire almost 2,500 years ago, time has stubbornly stood still. The feudal landlords defiantly lead the fight against change, and especially against the Shah's ambitious land-reform program...
...elders thought Ohio's private Hawken School was just the place for the heir to a $150 million fortune. Endsville, thought the 16-year-old heir, Cyrus Eaton III, grandson of the Industrialist Cyrus Sr. There was no football team at Hawken, and worse yet, no girls. So Cyrus III took off for Nashville, Tenn., where public West End High School, he heard, has both football and the coeds to go with it. Trying to enroll as a penniless orphan named Seth French, he let it slip that he knew Latin, and before long the jig was up. Said...