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...Eagles, with fair offensive potential, will ride Norman Snead's good days to some upsets and to sixth place. And the Steelers, old, injury-prone, and totally without glamor, will be as far sunk into last place as they can possibly tunnel...
...steep hillside near the port of Qui Nhon, eastern terminus of vital Route 19 to the highlands, which was reopened in Operation Ramrod after months under Viet Cong control. Utter soon found the enemy: 20 fully armed Viet Cong troops who promptly took refuge in a nearby network of tunnels. It would have been easy enough for Utter and his men to wipe them out with grenades or incinerate them with flamethrowers. Trouble was, the V.C. had herded 390 women and children into the tunnel with them. So Utter chose the humane way, shoving into the tunnel mouth 48 canisters...
...looked down and saw smoke coming up," says Saunders. "I heard a man crying, 'Help me, God help me!' But I couldn't see him. I was in the tube. The missile was in there. I got out of there." Lay and Saunders escaped through the tunnel leading to the single access portal. They were followed by Alan Aincham, 19, who had been posted in the passageway to check that workers in the silo carried no matches or articles that could strike a spark. Said Aincham: "It felt like there was a hurricane outside...
...Plea. It was not a day for unity. The very ceremony at which they spoke played its own part in creating new tensions. Perhaps miffed at the absence of the Swiss President, De Gaulle had refused to allow a low-level delegation from Switzerland-which donated 2% of the tunnel's cost-to take part in its inauguration. He even denied the Swiss access to the tunnel, the only link between the ribbon-cutting ceremonies on the French side and the speeches on the Italian. Small wonder that one passionate European Federalist in the audience found the session disturbing...
None of the political problems, however, could obscure the very real triumph that the day was meant to observe. The two-lane Mont Blanc tunnel, air-conditioned and equipped with ultramodern radar traffic control, will shorten the road between Paris and Rome by 125 miles-even more when the long winter snows close the Alpine passes. It is expected to be used by at least 1.2 million vehicles a year, each of which will pay tolls ranging from $3.25 (for a small European car) to $20 (for a bus). Just before its Italian entrance, a proud new road sign told...