Word: highway
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...President's program was a plan to provide direct subsidies, for rent or mortgage payments, for some 500,000 city families with incomes as high as $8,000 a year. Initially, the aid would be limited to families displaced by Government projects such as urban renewal and highway construction, to those presently in substandard housing, to the impoverished elderly, and to displaced or ill-housed families capable of increasing their income in the future. In general, the formula would call for such families to pay 20% of their income for housing-and the Government would make up any necessary...
Without changing a comma, the House of Representatives last week passed the Administration's aid-to-Appalachia bill and sent it to President Johnson to be signed into the Great Society. The bill provides for $1.1 billion, mostly for highway construction, in the eleven Appalachian states...
...tiny hamlet named Bongson-which in Vietnamese means "paradise." To its garrison of South Vietnamese defenders it appears more like a death trap. Hemmed in on one side by mountains, on the other by the sea, Bongson focuses a railroad, a river and the north-south coast highway, Route 1, into a single, strategic target. Last week Viet Cong campfires cast a brazen glow on the hills outside of town, while in Bong-son's main fort-rimmed with barbed wire and booby traps-soldiers and civil guards had grown so accustomed to attacks that they did not even...
Plans call for the building of a four-obstacle ring made up of a high metal cyclone fence, a 6-ft.-deep ditch, a highway for the exclusive use of Red patrols, and a sanitary strip some 500 yds. wide sprinkled with police watchtowers. Where buildings and trees now stand, pink hollyhocks will grow-not so much to beautify the austere scene as to provide the Communist sharpshooters with a clear line of fire...
...People marched, 1500-2000 of them, marched down Highway 80, across the bridge. At the other-side of the bridge were 200 state troopers, 200 possemen, about 1000 white people. The major of the state troopers made an announcement that they should turn around; the people refused. They knelt to the ground in a prayerful manner. Then the state troopers fired tear gas at them and began to beat them. I was hit in the head. People went back to the church. There are about 2000-3000 in the church. The posse is coming down to the church. People...