Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where 18 attacking planes blasted airfield runways, destroyed two buildings and fired a big aircraft fuel storage tank. At the same time, U.S. aircraft continued their daily raids against North Viet Nam below Hanoi, where they are beginning to run out of targets. The toll: one railroad bridge, three highway bridges, five barges, one coastal lighter, one ferryboat...
...than the Viet Cong struck again-this time at Lethanh, a district capital in mountainous Pleiku province. In the initial assault, the Reds overran the town, held it for three hours while other Viet Cong units ambushed three relief convoys in succession at almost the same spot on the highway. The toll: 106 government soldiers dead, 20 wounded or missing. Other Viet Cong traps clanged shut near Kontum and Quin-hon, and a full battalion of Reds struck the town of Binhchanh, just ten miles west of Saigon. The defending Ranger company was saved by armed U.S. helicopters...
...President also asked for similar controls over junkyards, insisting that they all be screened or placed at least 1,000 ft. from the road before a state could get federal highway aid. Beyond that, Johnson asked that states be required to use 3% of their federal road funds "for natural beauty" and that one-third of the aid each state receives for secondary roads should be used to build scenic roads and landscape federal-aid highways...
...perks of office enjoyed by Nevada's Democratic Governor Grant Sawyer, 46, is an official car. Enjoyed? It's a black 1962 Lincoln Continental, and it has left him stranded a dozen times in the past three years. Worse yet, every time he tries to radio the highway patrol to come rescue him, all he gets is static. "It makes so much noise that you have to keep it turned off," says Sawyer, adding that the air conditioning works in winter, the heater in summer. Now, after much pleading, Grant is getting a new auto, once again...
...HIGHWAY...