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Despite these problems, De Gaulle and Italian President Giuseppe Saragat snipped two symbolic ribbons one morning last week to open the world's longest auto tunnel (7¼ miles) under Western Europe's highest mountain (15,781 ft.). Then they climbed into Saragat's Fiat limousine and drove from France through the mountain to the Italian town of Courmayeur. After thousands of years of wishful thinking, eight decades of frustrated planning and six hard years of toil, Europe's greatest physical barrier had been conquered...
...Views. Not so the political barriers, which had kept the tunnel on the back burners from 1881, when the French first decided to build it, until 1953, when France and Italy signed a formal agreement to begin work on it. Although both De Gaulle and Saragat last week bravely hailed the event as a milestone toward European political unity, they were, as usual, talking about two different Europes...
...Saragat, a devout advocate of the Common Market, the tunnel was a major link uniting "the six European nations that live in the same human and idealistic climate," i.e., the Common Market. Such restrictions were not for De Gaulle, who saw it as a step toward his great vision of a Europe united from the Urals to the Atlantic-and independent of the U.S. "Now we are showing peace," he intoned, "and one day this peace will spread from Western Europe to the whole Continent. Then all of Europe will be a factor of capital importance in keeping the world...
...test flight propels him into their line of fire. Later, when Frobe attempts the channel, flying quite literally by the book, he somehow finds himself suspended at low altitude, treading water. This feat is matched by Terry-Thomas maladroit landing atop an express train bound for Paris-with a tunnel dead ahead...
...scheduled landing spot? Last week NASA's Dr. Homer Dotts firmly dispelled all rumors of a possible goof by Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young. According to Dr. Dotts, the capsule did not develop as much lift during re-entry as had been predicted from preflight wind-tunnel tests. With less gliding ability, the capsule plunged earthward on a steep trajectory that aimed her short of the target. By the time Grissom had calculated the trajectory on his computer, and realized that Molly was getting less lift than expected, it was too late to correct the error. Fortunately...