Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Market. Next day, King and Queen boarded their Soviet helicopter, were flown by the Russian crew to Paanchkhal to inspect the 70-mile road being built by Red Chinese engineers from Katmandu to the Tibetan border town of Kodari, where it connects with another highway leading to Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. Thousands of Nepalese workers using picks, shovels and crow bars are carving the road from the sheer slopes of mist-hung mountain passes. Chinese instructors patiently show the Nepalese how to operate rock drills while other Chinese clear away rocks and dirt with bulldozers; still others are busily surveying...
...long frustrating struggle to delay construction on the Memorial Drive underpasses may come to a successful close today, if the Massachusetts House of Representatives passes a bill setting a moratorium on all new highway construction in the metropolitan area...
...HIGHWAY...
...Brunson and his group kept right on with their plan. Stall-in motorcades from Maryland, Pennsylvania and Chicago were said to be on the way to New York. Brunson boasted that no fewer than 2,000 cars would stop dead on the highways. His demonstrators would slow down ticket lines at the fair by paying 199 pennies for the $2 admission. The city subway system would be paralyzed by 6 a.m., and the major highway approaches to the fair by 7:30 a.m. An airplane would fly over the fair and drop thousands of leaflets protesting discrimination, and a Harlem...
...Galamison, he got into his 1962 Lincoln Continental and with Negro Comedian Dick Gregory drove along the expressways, looking in vain for a good place to stall. As he approached the fair site in Flushing Meadows, he found the dividing strip between lanes on the highway lined with police. Several times a fellow demonstrator, following Galamison in his own car, drew abreast of the minister and shouted: "When are you going to stall?" Galamison cried back: "Let's keep looking...