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...Europe's tariff barriers fall under the impetus of the Common Market, nat ural barriers are also crumbling. Some where under Mont Blanc next fall, French and Italian engineers will com plete the world's longest (7¼ miles) vehicular tunnel, which will cut 194 miles from the 581-mile auto journey from Paris to Milan. Plans are also afoot for a joint Anglo-French tunnel under the English Channel. Last week the tunnel trend continued as France and Spain announced plans to pierce the Pyrenees. Just under two miles long, the proposed tunnel (see map) will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Crumbling Barriers | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

...Abominable Snowman in 1960. St. Louis should prove almost as lively. Among the charges passed on by retiring (after 40 years) Zoo Director George P. Vierhel-ler, 79: a troupe of dancing elephants, a joint lion-tiger-leopard training act, and Mr. Moke, the talking chimp (com plete vocabulary: "mamma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 27, 1962 | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...Berlin. He repeated this 10 or 20 times in various phrases. He would say: 'I will fall here' or T will fall before the Chancellery' or 'I must die here in Berlin.' He reasoned that the cause was irretrievably lost, in com plete contrast to his previous attitude, which had always been: 'We will fight to the last tip of the German Reich.' "What reasons motivated his change of heart no one knows. He expressed the fact that his confidence was shaken. He had lost confidence in the Wehrmacht quite a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Adolf Hitler's Last Hours | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...rain-lashed east coast of Leyte, an assault convoy was assembled. Its mission: to land on Mindoro, set up airfields overlooking the South China Sea, com plete the job of bisecting the Philippines begun at Leyte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Bold Stroke | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...airmen believe that such rights should be unrestricted. They see in com plete freedom of the air a great threat to weak countries, through surprise bombing raids over well-scouted territory. But they admit no reason why the nations cannot agree upon limited rights to foreign air lines which will tie the world closer than it has ever been before in trade, and there fore in understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: The Limitless Sky | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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