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...missile called sol-sol-balistique stratégique, and plans to have 50 of them by 1970. In Haute-Provence, workers are building underground silos from which the missiles will be launched. This year France launched Le Redoubtable, the first of three submarines modeled after the U.S. Polaris-firing fleet and capable of carrying 16 missiles shot from underwater; before the end of the year, it hopes to test-fire one of the sea-to-land missiles to be stocked on these submarines. Next year, France plans to test its first H-bomb at its new range off Tahiti...
...long range, Reischauer counsels less not more direct U.S. involvement in Asia. The U.S. Seventh Fleet should continue to shield the island nations, and the line must be held in Korea. But elsewhere, the U.S. should disengage, at least militarily. Reischauer believes that the general trend in Asia is favorable to U.S. interests anyway. That trend is nationalism, and Reischauer believes that U.S. aid, wisely and unobtrusively administered, can promote the growth of healthy national states in Asia. He also holds out hope for regional groupings, and banks heavily on the progressive influence of Japan...
...present chairman, it expanded backward. Rather than develop crude-oil supplies first and then build refineries and markets, Ashland built its markets in the south-central states, expanded its refineries as the markets grew. Ashland still buys most of its crude oil, hauls its purchases with its own barge fleet, one of the Ohio River's largest, or by means of 5,000 miles of Ashland-owned pipeline. Critics accuse the company of being oil-shy, but Rexford Blazer denies the charge. "We have never run short one barrel of crude oil in our life," says he, pointing...
...aficionados well know, it was Lieutenant Hornblower who decimated "Boney's" Spanish fleet in the West Indies in 1800, Commander Hornblower who intercepted the French troops that Napoleon tried to sneak into Ireland in 1804, Commodore Hornblower who inspired Sweden to join the war and gave Czar Alexander the courage to stand up and fight in 1812. And when the end finally came at Waterloo, there was Lord Hornblower, leading a band of guerrillas that tied up nine battalions of Napoleon's troops. Not until now, however, did anyone guess that it was young Captain Hornblower...
...Author Forester died last year at 66 before he could finish the story. He left notes, however, telling briefly what Hornblower would have done. Equipped with Napoleon's official seal (captured by Hornblower from an unsuspecting French brigantine), he would have arranged to deliver Napoleon's fleet to Trafalgar, where Admiral Nelson was waiting in ambush. As far as it goes, this last Hornblower story is, like its eleven predecessors, told with impeccable, salty craftsmanship and a fine, bracing conviction that history needs to be improved...