Word: courmayeur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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 out of line horizontally and three inches off vertically when they came together...
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