Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...existence of such devices--for use in blowing up highway networks or blocking mountain passes--had been a matter of record for more than half a dozen years, but until now there has been no authoritative word on where they were spotted...
...million frantic Indians turned out to cheer the Pope, shoving and pushing wildly to get a glimpse of him. His white Lincoln Continental convertible took an hour and a half to crawl the 13 miles of highway from the airport to the Eucharistic Congress. Giant signs along the route proclaimed India's welcome: LONG LIVE THE POPE, NO GREATER LOVE HATH ANY MAN, JOY ICE CREAMS WELCOME PAUL VI. A bit jokingly, a brilliant sign all awash in white lights on Marine Drive in Bombay blared: BIRTH CONTROL CENTER FOR SEX HEALTH...
...protest last week, which led to the spectacle of California Highway Patrolmen dragging students down four flights of stairs in the administrative office building, clubbing some of them, can be attributed only to obstinacy and bad faith on the part of Kerr's administration. The action by police led a meeting of more than 800 of Berkeley's 1200 faculty members to send a telegram to Governor Edmund Brown, condemning his use of the Highway Patrol. The same meeting urged a further liberalization of the University rules on political activity, and the establishment of a subcommittee of the Academic Senate...
...done an impressive business selling counterfeit tickets. With more than 20,000 extra cars in town-including the Pope's white Lincoln Continental, given him by an alumnus of Notre Dame-Bombay police are resigned to the prospect of monstrous traffic jams. As it happens, almost every major highway in the city is clogged with construction projects. There is perhaps some unintended irony in the pronouncement by Bombay's Valerian Cardinal Gracias that the Pope's visit is "a spiritual pilgrimage in keeping with the best spiritual traditions of India...
Furthermore, steady progress on the interstate highway system--especially in New Hampshire and Vermont--has meant that travel time to the major ski areas in the Northeast is constantly being reduced...