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...Razor's Edge. But the Seventh Army must also be prepared to fight with conventional weapons, and no one knows it better than the 3rd Armored's General Abrams. "We're combat-ready in 'atomics,' " he says, "but a lot of things could happen without having to use them. If I thought only in terms of 'atomics,' and I couldn't use them for ten days or so, then, by God, I couldn't get the job done right...
...done right, with whatever it takes, General Abrams is honing his 3rd Armored to a razor's edge. Each man spends some 135 days a year on field maneuvers. The division's tanks and combat vehicles are kept stocked with a full supply of ammunition. Since taking command of the division a year ago, Abrams has weeded out some 200 officers and men who did not shape up to his standards. Abrams tries every day to get away from the paperwork at his headquarters in Frankfurt, climb aboard his personal Bell helicopter and whirl off to inspect everyone...
Last week New Millionaire Bloom was busy toppling another bastion of British traditionalism. In a land where only 3% of the houses are centrally heated, Bloom's Rolls Razor Ltd. has begun to sell thermostatically controlled heating units at prices that would warm even a Scotsman's heart...
...advertised a Spartan automatic washer-dryer for $144 -40% below competitors' prices. Bloom's first ad pulled 8,000 inquiries, and soon he was selling 500 machines a week. Hoping to cut overhead by opening production lines in Britain, he next made a novel deal with Rolls Razor Ltd. (no kin to automaking Rolls-Royce): Bloom gave Rolls an order to make 25,000 washers, and Rolls in return made Bloom its managing director. Now the two firms are merging-with Bloom in control...
Meat is only the latest of scarcities under Castro. One by one, the abundant supplies of fish, pork, vegetables, rice, wheat, eggs, such consumer staples as razor blades, toilet paper and soap have disappeared from the shelves. Last month, to fight black-marketing, the government ordered that 15 articles-among them toothpaste, thread, and nursing nipples-would be sold henceforth only in government-designated stores. But what Castro cannot do by fiat is to end his own mismanagement, which has crippled Cuba's economy, or to overcome the stiff U.S. trade embargo, which makes matters very much worse...