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...cerebral industry where Saturn stands for a product as well as a target; where "Aeronutronic" is not a nervous disorder but a new branch of the Ford Motor Co.; where one week's output from a major factory can be shipped in the tail end of a station wagon, and a cupful of sensitive components, such as microwave diodes, is worth $150,000. It makes men talk in superlatives. Says E. V. Huggins, executive committee chairman of Westinghouse Electric Corp.: "The aerospace business is the most mind-stretching, imagination-producing, forward-looking activity a company can engage...
...door vending banners, newspapers, magazines, house cards, two varieties of beer mug, stationery, various organizations, and, it would appear, almost every other amenity of college life. They, of course, are in addition to that most obnoxious gentleman of all, the one armed with whistle and squeaky red wagon. He comes every night, chanting the litany of doughnut and sandwich in a voice loud enough to inspire even the angels to join in the rush downstairs...
...Fort Campbell, Ky., the 101st Airborne is as ready to go as a sprinter braced on the starting blocks. Everything the division owns can be carried by air except the barracks: 25-ton M41 tanks, antitank guns, Jeeps, the "mechanical mule" (a kind of motorized flatbed wagon), field kitchens, ground radar, and the 15-mile Honest John rocket, which can be fitted with a nuclear warhead. One company (300 men) is always ready to move out within an hour; an entire battle group (1,800 men) can be on its way in four. Every morning, every man on alert assumes...
...Battle. With the 1st Cavalry, Abrams earned the reputation of being the worst polo player in the U.S. Army, and mastered the day's standard tactics of how to attack an enemy tank: circle it at 15 yds. with five troopers like Indians closing in on a wagon train. Not until Hitler's Panzer divisions blitzkrieged France out of World War II in 1940 did the Army really begin its own tank program. Assigned to the brand-new 4th Armored Division, Abrams rose to command the 37th Battalion with the rank of major, drilled his tankers incessantly...
...idea that Goldberg's entire life has been spent in following the path that has taken him to the big desk in the Department of Labor. His father, Joseph Goldberg, fled czarist Russia in the 1880s and wound up in Chicago, where he acquired a horse and wagon, hauled produce to downtown restaurants, and by 1892 had saved enough money to bring his wife and daughter to the U.S. Arthur was the family's seventh and last child...