Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pentagon rolled out four-ton trucks for its top officials. One lower-grade officer had to stay on duty in the command center for 42 hours because his relief could not make his way in. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, after flying in from Minneapolis, found the 25-mile highway from outlying Dulles Airport impassable, finally "taxied" to National Airport, close to town, aboard a DC-6. A White House guard left home in Maryland at midnight on Sunday so that he could be on the job Monday morning...
First off the mark were Navy planes from the U.S.S. Ranger, which dropped a bridge twelve miles southwest of Dong Hoi and blasted a ferry landing near Quang Khe. Only minutes later, on target-a highway-ferry complex at Thanh Hoa-were Air Force F-105s, and another Air Force wing was soon battering a cluster of barges with 20-mm. cannon. The first day's bombing took a toll of three U.S. planes shot down by antiaircraft fire-one measure of the use to which Hanoi had put the pause...
...reach Supai, Arizona, you turn off Highway 66 at Peach Springs, follow the mail truck 65 miles across the desert to the edge of the Grand Canyon, and then wind your way by packmule to the Canyon floor a mile below...
This particular kind of poverty is as unfamiliar to Harvard students as the West and the Canyon. The Huvasupai subsist on Stone Age agriculture. What they know of towns and civilization is the backsides of the silver boomtowns on Highway 66: cheap wine, pool halls, dusty '51 Pontiacs parked near pseud-adobe cafes, hostility from merchants who won't give Indians credit...
Only in the desert and within the walls of their plateau, property of the tribe for centuries, do the Havasupai feel comfortable. Yet the world beyond Highway 66 is now beginning to shatter that security. The Grand Canyon Dam is rising up river, meaning water and power for California. The Havasupai lands won't be flooded, but their rapids will disappear and the familiar will be rendered strange...