Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planners told the Council and the audience that they had real doubts as to the need for the eight-lane highway. But simultaneously they warned that "there's going to be a Belt Route through Cambridge" and that the City must take a forthright position on the least harmful path...
...Rena Frye, 49, did interfere when California highway patrolmen stopped Marquette, 21, on suspicion of drunken driving last Aug. 11. His brother Ronald, 22, was a passenger in the battered grey and white Buick. Hearing that her sons were in trouble, diminutive (5 ft.) Mrs. Frye came from her house near by, scolded Marquette, and asked the officers if she could take the car-which her husband needed to drive to his job. A hostile crowd gathered, and the two boys got into a scuffle with the cops. Mrs. Frye jumped on one officer's back, was dragged...
Escaping History? The Chinese merchants of the district had little connection with the Communists, but in reprisal to Communist brutality, Moslem and Christian youths burned more than 200 Chinese homes. As a result of the terror, usually bustling Solo, Boyolali and Klaten are anemic ghost towns. On the highway from Djokjakarta to Solo, normally clogged with traffic, only an occasional bullock cart lumbers by, while convoys of steel-helmeted Dipo-negoro division units from Sumatra and colorful Kommando Para Raiders from Djakarta in bright vermilion berets race past the empty paddies in armored cars and trucks. In Solo, Moslem student...
SAMs-in an oval site comprising vans and camouflaged tents, squatting in the center of a web of dirt roads about eleven miles from the highway bridge. The missile hunters flashed in at treetop level, pumping cannon shells and slipping loose their 750-lb. bombs. For 20 minutes, the Thunderchiefs slammed away; there were no further missile shots. "They're going to be working on those vans for three, four years-if they even fiddle with 'em," said Air Force Captain Robert L. Harris, of Long View, Texas. "You can't knock 20-mm. holes in those...
...Common Market and removed a Maginot Line of trade barriers that sat between France and its neighbors. French firms, actually encouraged by the government to stay away from the danger zone between the wars, began to discover the province and its opportunities: ample land and labor force, the broad highway of the Rhine, convenient location...