Word: highway
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Where? A number of future North Vietnamese targets stand out: Highway 12 to Laos, a newly built guerrilla turnpike; the military-industrial complex of Vinh, where the Hanoi railway ends; a big rail bridge at Tanhhoa, spanning a deep ravine; the Hanoi-Haiphong highway; petroleum storage tanks in Haiphong; the rail line entering North Viet Nam from China at Dongdang. As a heavily populated civilian center of 644,000, Hanoi is unlikely to be hit before the others, although the North Vietnamese do not seem sure of that: one eyewitness saw residents digging trenches in parks and gardens there last...
Noting that the basic cause of farm programs is the U.S. farmer's "enormous capacity to produce," Johnson recommended a long-range plan to remove between 50 million and 80 million acres of land from crop production, convert them to such nonagricultural uses as parks, forests and highway beautification. Such a program, he said, would supplement present acreage diversion and allotment plans, and eventually would more than pay for itself. In the meantime, Administration officials estimated, the plan would cost at least $100 million a year...
...cope with the problem, the A.M.A. has urged the Federal Communications Commission to allot two citizens' band radio channels for the sole use of drivers in distress, whose calls for assistance would be monitored by highway patrol or sheriff's offices...
...about $75. Thus equipped, the motor association pointed out, the beleaguered motorist would have only to "pull over, roll up the windows, lock the doors, and start talking." He would not even have to cry HELP! for that is what the program would be called. Short, of course, for Highway Emergency Locating Plan...
...colony of American firms has sprung up in Rome, which otters the nearest reservoir of technical talent and the best transportation to the underdeveloped nations. Last week Rome's top American architects ranged over Africa and Asia Minor, supervising hospital construction in Nigeria and Iraq, launching a highway project in Libya, delivering final drawings for a prison in Baghdad...