Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peoria, Ill., which noted that she was the first First Lady to visit as an official guest in 140 years, Lady Bird dedicated the city's modernistic new $4,500,000 county courthouse and gardens in the heart of a $50 million, eight-block downtown renewal project. "A city is not just a collection of stores and homes and shops," said Lady Bird. "It is a place for people to live and, hopefully, it is a place where they can live the good life." Then, hefting a chrome-plated shovel, she planted a Japanese cherry tree. When...
...week's end, water still stood up to 4 ft. deep in parts of the 300-block area east of the ruptured Industrial Canal. In the city and nearby lowlands, the death toll had reached 65 and was still climbing. No one could tell how many more bodies the muddy waters might yield. And, as medical teams inoculated citizens against typhoid and diphtheria, New Orleans sweated out the threat of epidemic...
...nuns worked tirelessly to bathe a long line of Negro children in a commandeered garbage can. Some areas had to be cordoned off against looters. Many merchants gave supplies to the hungry; others battened on privation by charging $1 or more for a loaf of bread, $5 for a block of ice. A dozen high school students volunteered for the grimmest duty of all-sorting victims in the morgue...
Early last week the Pakistanis mounted a counteroffensive and drove the Indians back to the border. Some hungry, homeless inhabitants returned to Kasur, but now death rained down from the sky. On Sept. 14, Canberra bombers of the Indian Air Force blew up a two-block area with thousand-pound bombs and demolished a factory complex on the city's outskirts. Kasur was hit almost daily by Indian jets pumping 20-mm. shells into anything that moved. An estimated 1,200 dead lie buried in the ruins...
...Russian takeover of the huge British base at Singapore would not only produce "a stalemate" on the Malayan peninsula, as Lee observed, but also block the strategic Strait of Malacca and disrupt the entire balance of power in the Southeast Pacific. The idea was all the more surprising because a) Britain has no intention of leaving anytime soon, b) the U.S. has its hands full in Viet Nam, and c) the Soviet Union is so monumentally uninterested in Lee's problems that it has not even troubled to recognize the infant nation in the six weeks since...