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...Force crew chief, but Viet Nam's Feddersen outdoes them all-both in Yankee horse-trading skill and sheer inventiveness. In a scant 14 months, he unplugged the logistical bottleneck that had plagued the development of the Chu Lai enclave, and in the process set up his outfit as the most efficient unit in the area. "Over here it's a self-help program," says Feddersen, "where you're the self doing the helping...
Within 23 days of Feddersen's arrival, he had shaken loose 2,600 lbs. of spare parts for failing trucks and bulldozers, procured vitally needed aluminum sections for the airstrip's 8,000-ft. jet runway, and made MCB 10 the only outfit on the base with a perpetual supply of beer, steaks, lettuce, tomatoes and lumber. In the past two weeks alone, Feddersen has turned up a truck engine, two electronic workbenches, 15 file cabinets, 35 electric fans, 1,000 lbs. of small automotive parts and 42 hickory-handled carnival mallets. "You're dead...
...same time Adams has tactical advantages over Hughes. There was no war in 1962; consequently it was harder to convince voters of the importance of the peace issue. Hughes, moreover, had no base from which to build his campaign. Adams has an outfit called Mass Pax, or Political Action for Peace, the outgrowth of the Hughes organization. Unlike Hughes, Adams is running as a Democrat, and his campaign is directed toward the September 13 Democratic Primary when he will oppose Mayor John Collins and former Governor Endicott Peabody. Hughes, an independent, faced stiffer November opposition in the form of Edward...
...bride-to-be's bedroom, where, as Luci popped out of the adjoining sitting room wearing one or another of the gowns under consideration, her mother would nibble a sandwich and sip ice tea between such comments as "A lovely neckline" or "That detail is pretty." One outfit prompted Lady Bird to exclaim: "That's an elegant dress-the kind you would hand down to your grandchildren." And that was the one Luci selected. The design (an exclusive from Dallas' Neiman-Marcus) will be kept top secret, Luci fervently hopes, until high noon of her wedding...
Such corporate happiness could be catching. It has already caught on with the people at the Fidelity Bankers Life Insurance Co. of Richmond, Va. Fidelity has laid out $23,000 to outfit 117 employees with identical wardrobes because, as Fidelity's President Harold J. Richards explains, "it furthers our esprit de corps...