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Colt got the M-16 in a roundabout way. The new rifle was invented by a West Coast gunsmith, who sold the patent to the Fairchild Stratos Corp. Not equipped to make guns, Fairchild four years ago sold the rights to Colt, whose know-how quickly worked the bugs out of the gun. Colt needed a going thing. Having fallen on hard times after World War II, the company in 1955 was taken over by Penn-Texas Corp., which later became Fairbanks Whitney. A vast conglomeration of ill-matched companies, Fairbanks Whitney has run through four separate managements...
...avoid a State Department ban on travel to Cuba, the 58 had to fly expensively roundabout courses to London, Paris, Amsterdam and Prague before winging on to Havana on Czechoslovak Airlines. They were lionized by President Osvaldo Dorticós, Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, Communist Boss Blas Roca and, of course, Fidel himself, who skindived with them near the Bay of Pigs and played pingpong with them at Varadero. ("I give up," California Student Eric Johnson gasped. "What you are doing to me is another Bay of Pigs.") They visited shipyards, collective farms and schools, squeezed...
...Middle East and Algerian oil from tankers and channel it to twelve departments of eastern France, to the northern half of Switzerland and to a southern portion of Germany that accounts for 40% of all West German oil consumption. By eliminating overland haulage and the 2,000-mi.-plus roundabout ocean voyage to North Sea ports, it stands to ease the costs of gasoline and fuel oil; in Karlsruhe last week Esso trimmed gasoline prices ½?-1½? per gallon...
Aboard were two Cuban diplomatic couriers on their roundabout way to La Paz via Mexico and Chile. Investigators found a batch of Cuban documents and an auto matic pistol with silencer. Another interesting discovery: both Cubans appeared to have been in the cockpit of the plane, which was 35 miles off course and 9,000 ft. too low when it crashed...
...Laotian delegation was determined to go on looking for dollars,to finance its last-ditch stand against the U.S. line, planned to stop at South Viet Nam, Formosa, South Korea. Since these countries are heavily supported by the U.S.. it would merely be a roundabout way of getting U.S. funds, and the chances looked slim. For better or worse, the U.S. is still determined to force the anti-Communists of Laos into neutrality...