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...Alpine depths, tunnel workers from Italy and from France scrambled over the settling debris to meet in grimy embrace and exchange flags, helmets and undershirts. They cheered hoarsely: "Viva la Francia!" "Vive I'Italic!" Waterfalls & Soft Rock. It was the breakthrough for the world's longest vehicular tunnel, stretching 7.2 miles* beneath the icy, forbidding Alpine massif to join Courmayeur, Italy, and Chamonix, France, the famed ski resort. A magnificent feat of engineering, the French and Italian sections of the horizontal hole, begun on opposite sides of Western Europe's tallest mountain, were only two inches...
...Europe's tariff barriers fall under the impetus of the Common Market, nat ural barriers are also crumbling. Some where under Mont Blanc next fall, French and Italian engineers will com plete the world's longest (7¼ miles) vehicular tunnel, which will cut 194 miles from the 581-mile auto journey from Paris to Milan. Plans are also afoot for a joint Anglo-French tunnel under the English Channel. Last week the tunnel trend continued as France and Spain announced plans to pierce the Pyrenees. Just under two miles long, the proposed tunnel (see map) will...
...sentiments were those of any East European Communist satellite. "Kennedy is the pirate President of the 20th century," cried the Havana radio, complaining hysterically that U.S. aircraft had "fired shots" while flying past the south Cuban coastline. In a familiar Berlin-style reprisal, the Castro regime halted all vehicular traffic into the U.S. Navy's Guantanamo Base, forcing the Navy to pick up Cuban base employees at the gate and transport them to their jobs; next, Castro might try cutting off the base water supply from the Yateras River, 20 miles away. More and more, Cuban propaganda stressed what...
...engineer Ray built his first bridge, then he built the first vehicular tunnel in Cuba. After that he was Project Manager for the Havana Hilton Hotel. "The first job cost a million dollars; the tunnel was $6 1/2 million job; the Hilton project was $20 million. I say this so you see the progress...
...another striking difference was evident. Recently arrived Yemenites who died of TB, or were killed in accidents amid the unfamiliar vehicular traffic, proved on post-mortem examination to have virtually no atherosclerotic heart disease. Yet this was the greatest killer among the Ashkenazim, Jews who had migrated to Israel from middle and northern Europe...