Word: expressway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...totalitarian regime in the country." In Rio, 200 students invaded the Education Ministry offices on Flamengo Beach. They grabbed books and pieces of scenery belonging to the National Theater Conservatory and heaved the lot out of office windows. They blocked traffic and collected tolls on an ad jacent expressway. In Fortaleza, police broke up student demonstrations with what they called "family-size" nightsticks. In São Paulo, the students' midnight skulkers sprayed "UNE" in paint on sidewalks and cars...
...expressway leading to Chicago's International Amphitheatre, workmen slapped a new coat of silver over the mud-spattered dividing rail. On streets surrounding the hall-many of them barred to all but VIP vehicles-lampposts were painted kelly green. Even fire hydrants were touched up by the painter's brush. Redwood fences, in a rainbow of pastels, hid junkyards and trash-strewn lots from the eyes of passing drivers and their passengers...
...unspoken fear was that black militants in dingy, high-rise public housing off the Dan Ryan Expressway might fire on delegates traveling to and from the hall. Two police helicopters patrolled the route. President Johnson, if he attends at all, will avoid this danger, zipping in and out by helicopter. As an added precaution, a dummy portico, modeled after the entrance to the White House, was erected in front of the amphitheatre's main door to block the aim of any rifleman. Even the airspace up to an altitude of 2,500 ft. above the convention site was banned...
...only one-tenth the size of Montreal's Expo '67, the alltime giant. As a result, the exposition is "manageable in human terms," says HemisFair's chief designer, Allison Peery, meaning that all the exhibits are within easy walking distance. On the elevated "people expressway," no point is more than a ten-minute walk from any other, and for variety there are flower-bedecked barges plying the canals, a minimonorail, and that familiar world's fair fixture, the Swiss Skyride, lofting fairgoers 80 ft. in the air from one edge of the grounds to the other...
...most improbable of auto accidents, a two-tire wheel assembly detached itself from a trailer truck on the Long Island Expressway and smashed into a limousine carrying Gary Grant, 64. The accident mashed the priceless Grant nose, bruised his expensive ribs, and dispatched the actor for nearly a week's stay at St. John's Hospital, where he shared a semiprivate room with the limousine's driver. Also hospitalized: Gratia von Furstenberg, 23, a cousin of Actress Betsy von Furstenberg, who was accompanying Grant to the airport to see him off, and wound up at St. John...