Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delegates spent two days in discussions about various blots on the landscape and the villains who put them there. "Our enemy is the highway engineer," said a woman delegate from Nebraska, suggesting that all such engineers should be required to take a course in esthetics, including the reading of great poets. Najeeb Halaby, former Federal Aviation Agency chief, said that public officials "are not usually brave enough" to do what they must to preserve natural beauty...
...President was deadly serious when it came to the beautification program, and to prove it he sent a message to Congress asking for four new laws to clean up roadsides. One would put controls on billboard advertising by making it impossible for states to receive federal highway grants after July 1, 1970, unless they removed signs erected within 1,000 ft. of the road. Despite arguments that roadside signs help keep motorists awake and despite the fact that many states put up their own billboards to advocate safe-driving practices. Johnson said, "It is neither in the interests...
Learning from TV. Much of that money went into a sound, economic infrastructure for the northeast. The newly completed 380-mile "Friendship Highway," with its 500 miles of feeder roads, cuts the travel time between Bangkok and the Laotian border from weeks (depending on the weather) to a mere eight hours, at the same time opening vast new markets for the northeast's cash crops of jute, tobacco and maize. Last week more than 300 vehicles an hour were moving along the highway. And if Communist aggression ever comes to Thailand on the scale of Viet Nam, the highway...
Ironically, the highway has bred an aggression no one expected. With the advent of modern transportation, the northeast's endemic bandit population switched from cattle rustling to highway robbery. The region's 30 holdup gangs now roar down the Friendship Highway in hot rods, pulling abreast of buses and firing shots across their bows, then relieving their passengers of cash and jewelry. Many of the bandits, according to Thai police, learned their holdup techniques by watching U.S. westerns on TV sets supplied to most villages for propaganda purposes...
Bamboo & Buffalo Blood. Off the highway stand U.S.-built jet strips from which American fighter-bombers have been flying to hit Laotian and North Vietnamese Communist targets. Udon and Ubon, Korat and Takli all rumble daily to the pulse of supersonic assault. At Korat enough equipment to supply an entire infantry brigade has been stored against the day when that many U.S. troops might arrive on the scene. At the same time, Thailand has set up "Special Operations Centers" from which elite Thai army units, modeled on the U.S. Special Forces, patrol the Mekong borders, gather intelligence, and help...