Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government talked of victory last week and rushed construction of a concrete and steel war memorial in the capital city of Vientiane. Closing in from north and south, government troops finally cleared a dusty, 150-mile slash of road that serves as the country's major north-south highway between Vientiane and Luangprabang...
...organizations ranging from the Flying Saucer Square Dance Club to the Military Order of Lady Bugs. Dress is studiously informal: a woman in hat and gloves is clearly going on a trip "outside." Except on scientific business or for shopping trips to Santa Fe (24 miles away by good highway), Los Alamos' residents seldom venture far away. Despite its isolation, the city has developed a first-rate Little Theater, is a regular stop for concert stars...
...could buy reasonably," a leader of the Rotary program disarmingly explains. Last fall the school installed a model traffic layout in one tots' classroom, and a half-acre complex of "streets" out on the playground. After the state police commissioner himself cut a ribbon to open the new highway, top Connecticut officials gravely watched as little Rockvillians played cops and rodders...
...fostered by a "continuing effort to reduce artificial restraints on competition" and by "major improvements" in the nation's transportation system. "After long years of debate, the dream of a great St. Lawrence Seaway, opening the heartland of America to ocean commerce, has been fulfilled." The federal-state highway system "has been pushed rapidly forward," and 25% of the planned network is now open to traffic. "Our nation benefits also from a remarkable improvement in general industrial peace through strengthened processes of free collective bargaining. Time lost since '1952 because of strikes has been half that lost...
...Marion Whitton, 62, Federal Highway Administrator. Highwayman Whitton is among the oldest of the Kennedy appointees, but may well be one of the spryest. A graduate civil engineer, he started out surveying for the Missouri State Highway Department in 1920, rose to become its chief engineer and prime builder of 12,000 miles of state roads. Democrat Whitton has won nearly every top professional award his trade has to offer, was strongly recommended for his new job by outgoing Republican Administrator Bertram Tallamy...