Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mist. Forty-eight Thunderchiefs had been assigned to bomb the Thanhhoa bridge, a key rail-highway span across the Song Ma River, 76 miles south of Hanoi. The jets flew in groups of four; while one flight attacked, the others circled the area, their speed cut by the weight of their armament-eight 750-lb. bombs and 2,000 lbs. of cannon shells in each aircraft. High above and to the north, F-100 Super Sabre jets flew combat air patrol. Their mission: to forewarn of the approach of enemy aircraft and if possible to intercept. The Super Sabres...
...speedway that would cut their community in half. Running east-west alongside the town's main thoroughfare, it would link up other northern suburbs but do nothing for the town itself, seems to La Canadans little more than a ruse to collect $60 million in federal grants. The highway department claims that the projected-population figures for La Canada by 1980 necessitate the freeway. Planning Consultant Lyle Stewart retorts: "This area is built up with single-family units. The only way the population could increase is with multiple units, and the only thing that will bring them in here...
...ORLEANS. To untangle traffic jams in the city's business district, the Louisiana highway department has proposed an elevated six-lane highway that would skirt the historic French Quarter and parallel the Mississippi River. Preservationists claim the highway will not only destroy the area's flourishing tourist trade, but also defeat their hopes of clearing a view of the Mississippi, long obscured by riverside warehouses. Warns Harnett T. Kane, president of the Louisiana Landmark Society: "It is the greatest single danger now confronting historic New Orleans...
...planned will cost an estimated $35 million. But this is the kind of issue on which honest men may honestly differ. Philadelphia's Urban Renewal Chief Edmund Bacon (TIME cover, Nov. 6), who is as much concerned with esthetic values as any other planner alive, defends the elevated highway: "Burying the expressway would cut off the motorist's view of what we are trying to do, to develop Society Hill...
...state and its engineers have a built-in advantage. There are always more motorists in any one state than citizens in any one town. Even the towns themselves are divided. For every town that opposes one highway plan, ten are delighted that it is not going through theirs...