Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proscribed 20-mile-wide buffer zone along the Chinese border, U.S. airmen scored direct hits on the previously damaged Lang Son bridge, the major rail link between Hanoi and China. Venturing within one minute's flying time of the Chinese border, U.S. raiders knocked out three previously untouched highway bridges over which the North Vietnamese had been trucking supplies in an effort to offset the rail delays...
...airmen continued the strategy of trying to cut all rail and road access to the port of Haiphong so that incoming supplies will not reach the war zone. For the third time in a month, they bombed a highway bridge only eight-tenths of a mile from Haiphong's heart, this time dropped the center span. Scratching another target from the dwindling list of forbidden objectives, they hit a fuel dump at Tien Nong, seven miles northwest of Haiphong. The storage tanks were believed to hold 700 tons of oil for North Vietnamese trucks and power stations. The estimate...
...judiciously defer or slow down spending in nonessential areas and still save $5 billion or more. Most often mentioned are military construction in the U.S., the supersonic transport project, the space program, research and development in all fields (which now amounts to $17 billion), and such frills as highway beautification. Last week Wisconsin's John Byrnes, senior Republican on Ways and Means, got a call from the Interior Department informing him of a $2,000 grant for picnic facilities in his district. "That's only one of thousands," fumed Byrnes. "It's a nice thing...
Most of the highway had been cleared when three boys and one girl darted out of the crowd and sat down in the middle with their legs crossed. The crowd cheered. Then eight policemen descended on the group, swinging their clubs with hatched strokes. In a few seconds they straightened up and walked away. The four figures lay unconscious, crumpled, with blood streaming from their heads and bodies...
After the police had cleared the highway, they pushed the crowd up the 35-foot embankment bordered it. The protestors climbed frantically, but many women could not make it on their own and had to be helped up. When somebody slipped, he ran into the club of a policeman...