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...SUBMARINES. When the Democrats assumed power, the U.S. had 14 nuclear subs, the Russians none. Today the U.S. fleet has 76 atom-fueled submarines and the Soviet Union...
...yacht, whose opulence included deep Turkish carpeting. De Gaulle was attended by a nubile Turkish blonde clad in a red veil, blue tunic and diaphanous harem pants. Local wags had suggested that De Gaulle had an even chance of sighting a Soviet warship en route to join the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean. Though nothing was said about the impressive Russian naval buildup, De Gaulle had ordered a fat file on the Soviet fleet a week before the trip...
Hurwich, 46, an M.I.T.-trained mechanical engineer, puts in 55 to 60 hours a week as president of Dymo. Even in his spare time, he keeps pursuing many personal interests that he manages to turn to profit. A flying buff, he owns a small air-taxi service with a fleet of three STOL (for short takeoff and landing) airplanes in the San Francisco area...
...subsidiary of the U.S.'s Continental Air Lines, operates in Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand, and has become the prime commercial charter carrier in an area where ground travel is usually difficult and often impossible. In Viet Nam, which is home for half of its 50-plane fleet, CAS links dozens of airstrips from the DMZ to the Mekong Delta. Each month it carries 20,000 passengers and some 1,300,000 lbs. of cargo. Its customers, mainly U.S. contractors in Viet Nam, do not demand much in the way of frills. "Here you keep up your image...
...take contracts from RMK-BRJ, the big U.S. construction combine, and other U.S. firms, agreeing in return to pay a royalty to Air Viet Nam, the understaffed government airline that has a nominal monopoly on Vietnamese commercial air travel. Having assembled a motley but eminently suitable short-haul fleet led by eight vintage C-47 transports, CAS expects to take in at least $9,000,000 this year and make its first annual profit...