Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...injured, 1,700 arrested, property damage well over $100 million. Minute by minute, police radios logged a Wellsian cata logue of carnage: "Manchester and Broadway, a mob of 1,000 . . . Shots at Avalon and Imperial . . . Vernon and Central, looting . . . Yellow cab over turned . . . Man pulled from car on Imperial Highway . . . 88th and Broad way, gun battle . . . Officer in trouble." The riot was the worst in the city's history, one of the worst ever in the U.S. To help quell it, California's Gov ernor Pat Brown broke off a vacation in Greece and hurried home. "From here...
Like some ponderous snake, the long convoy labored up the steep switchbacks on Route 19. Guards nervously rode rifle atop every truck. Three hours out of coastal Qui Nhon, the vehicles pulled into Mang Yang pass-favorite ambush point for the Viet Cong on the 100-mile highway to Pleiku. Along the edge of the narrow road were massive craters. To clear the V.C. from the pass, high-flying B-52s from Guam had blasted Mang Yang with bombs the night before. Once past the pass, the guards relaxed, and the convoy-the first since the end of May-rolled...
...House version of the highway bill would allow 14 local communities -- four more than in the past bill -- to reject proposed routes for Interstate highways passing through them
...local communities -- including Cambridge -- had been given the veto during Volpe's first administration, and the governor, though opposed to the provision, signed it into law as part of a highway bond issue...
...State highway officials have contended that unless the veto provision is eliminated, Massachusetts's $1.2 billion Interstate system is doomed. The federal government will pay 90 per cent of the cost of the system, which is now about two thirds completed, if it is finished...