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...rocketeers slip to within range of the city, often using, for the sake of speed, crude earthworks and bamboo racks rather than unwieldy launcher tubes to aim their whispering death on Saigon. Easily broken down into sections-a 2-lb. fuse, a 41-lb. warhead and a 59-lb. motor section-the rockets can be carried by porters, are quickly assembled and fired by a crew of only three men. The missiles are not notably precise-at a maximum range of about seven miles, gunners are lucky if they hit within 400 yards of their target-but the lack...
...when George Schuster was working for the E. R. Thomas Motor Co. of Buffalo, his boss sent him on a trip to Paris. There was one catch. George had to go by car, via California and Siberia, as a contestant in the longest auto race ever...
...most interesting changes was right near the top, where the relative positions of the really big firms seldom alter. General Motors was still the biggest industrial corporation in the U.S., as well as in the world, with 1967 sales of $20 billion and net earnings of $1.6 billion. But Ford Motor Co., which had been No. 2 in national standings, fell to No. 3. Moving into second place behind G.M. was Standard Oil (New Jersey). Sales under Chairman Michael Haider (TIME cover, Dec. 29, 1967) were $13.3 billion last year, or nearly $2.8 billion higher than Ford...
...reason may be that there have been few mistakes. Since they acquired Lamie's Tavern, their first acquisition, in 1954, Ma Dunfey and her boys have increased sales from $500,000 to $10 million. Along the way, they have spread a string of nine motor inns and hotels through five New England states, grown from a mom-and-sons outfit to a company employing nearly 1,000 people. Next year they expect to reach $12 million in annual sales and expand their chain to some 2,000 rooms, thus surpassing ITT-owned Sheraton Hotel Corp. as New England...
...bank before taking over the Lamie Tavern and a hotel-keeping career. Since then, their projects, all overseen by Ma Dunfey, have ranged from acquisition of the 800-room Eastland Hotel in Portland, Me., New England's third biggest hotel, to a $3,850,000 franchised Howard Johnson Motor Lodge now abuilding directly over the Massachusetts Turnpike...