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...sales. At its new distribution center in New Jersey, a Univac computer sorts and digests day-to-day orders according to models, shades and sizes; with it, the company can toss out slow sellers or step up production in a hurry. Jonathan Logan even has its own C46 transport airlifting fabrics and finished goods to and from its 28 plants around the U.S., has sliced ten days off delivery times...
European travelers and businessmen should be happy too. The $50 million Mont Blanc tunnel will represent a big advance in European transport when it is opened to traffic early in 1964. The 23-ft., two-lane roadway will chop 125 mountainous miles from the Paris-Rome drive, open a route usable even when Alpine snow is deepest; Geneva and Turin. 197 miles apart by road in the summer and 491 miles apart in the winter, will be separated by 168 miles all year long when the tunnel is opened...
From a Cold Start. But McNamara soon discovered that there was little coordination between the three Army divisions in the U.S. and the fighter and transport units of the Air Force's Tactical Air Command. McNamara's solution was to merge the three divisions and all Stateside units of TAG into a unified command that became known as STRIKE. To command STRIKE, McNamara picked the Army's General Paul D. Adams, 55, a let-the-chips-fall combat veteran of World War II, Korea, and a leader of the hastily assembled U.S. police force sent to Lebanon...
...fighters roared low over the peanut and beanfields in close support of sweltering G.I.s armed with new M-14 rifles and M-60 machine guns. C124 cargo planes lumbered overhead to airdrop Jeeps to the troops below. During one exhausting night, 194 huge cargo planes of the Military Air Transport Service flew in 8,000 men of the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division and 6,000 tons of equipment from Fort Carson, Colo., 1,800 miles away...
...Central America; of a heart attack; in Nantucket, Mass. Whitey Willauer ran the quasi-military China Defense Supplies Inc., feeding fuel and arms to General Claire Chennault's "Flying Tigers," stayed on after the war to help Chennault organize and run Nationalist China's Civil Air Transport Service, "the most shot at civilian airline in history." Later, as U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, he helped quarterback the 1954 revolution that overthrew the pro-Communist regime of Jacobo Arbenz in neighboring Guatemala...