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...strategic development of the week came along the Y-shaped network of railroad lines leading into and out of Hanoi (see map). Flights of Air Force Thunderchiefs and Phantoms shattered three rail bridges on the already-mangled Hanoi-Lao Kay line, chewed up 300 yards of track and a railway yard. The Lao Kay-Lang Son line is the only rail link between Red China's Yunnan province and the rest of China, and with the U.S. hitting it twice a week since Sept. 4, all traffic to Yunnan is now moving by highway or air. So far, Peking...
...gather before the TV to watch "Zero Fighter Hayato" knock a dozen American P-38s or Wildcats from the skies. Plastic-model Zero fighters and picture books are bestsellers from Hokkaido to Kyushu, while adults are now reading a book called Glorious Records, which praises the wartime Burma-Siam railway project that built the bridge over the River Kwai. A new series of junior high school history textbooks, approved by the Ministry of Education, implies that the blame for World War II lay not so much with Japanese aggression but with economic pressure exerted against Japan by "the ABCD Ring...
Long before the Iron Curtain slammed down, the Orient Express had won a reputation as Europe's most exciting train for the countless fictional (and occasionally real) spy plots, love affairs, murders and desperate struggles that took place as it raced across Europe. All the action occurred in railway cars owned by a company with a title to match the grandeur of the Express: Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens. Wagons-Lits is once again demonstrating its durability by restoring the full Paris-to-Bucharest run of the Orient Express, which...
Into Le Drugstore. Wagons-Lits now runs and partly owns more than 40 hotels and restaurants in ten countries. Its 16,000 employees (specially trained in two Paris schools) staff restaurants or bars in most of Europe's railway stations, also cater meals for 33 airlines. The firm also retains a 25% interest in Thos. Cook & Son travel agency, shares quarters and billing with it in many cities. Having built France's first motel in 1955, Wagons-Lits feels that motels are the big business of the future in Europe, has already invested in eleven in seven countries...
...toughest challenges a U.S. businessman can face. Last week two executives who have been uncommonly successful in meeting that challenge moved on to new and bigger jobs. Louis W. Menk, 47, will leave the $100,000-a-year presidency and board chairman ship of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. to take over as president and chief executive of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co., succeeding Harry C. Murphy, who is retiring at 73. Jack E. Gilliland, 56, who has been a vice president of the Frisco since 1958, will move up to become its president and chairman...