Word: interiorly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standards, Brazil's Highway BR-14 is certainly no Indiana turnpike or New York State Thruway. Meandering 1,350 miles from Belém to Brasilia through the jungles and scrub of Brazil's wild interior, it is barely two lanes wide; the surface is dust in the dry season, mud in the wet, and some of the ruts could swallow a Volkswagen alive. Yet in the eyes of former President Juscelino Kubitschek, who built the road between 1956 and 1960, BR-14 is "the highway of dreams" for underdeveloped Brazil, and the means to "a new civilization...
...commonwealth, famed for frolic, sun and sugar, last week celebrated the opening of a $2,000,000 museum in Ponce, designed by Edward Durell Stone and almost entirely bankrolled by Industrialist Luis Ferré, who is a three-time loser in the island's gubernatorial elections. Seven skylighted interior galleries are hexagonal, juxtaposing art works that can be scanned in a single twirl...
...that synthetic cabin material such as soundproofing, when exposed to fire and soaked by jet kerosene fuel or hydraulic fluid, may exude deadly gases; survivors of the Salt Lake City crash reported that fumes "seared and burned" their lungs. As a result, the CAB called for laboratory analysis of interior appointments used in all jet airliners...
...where he got to know some of the city's first families, the American major soon became a familiar figure at chateau parties and hunts. After the French Ministry of the Interior awarded him the honorific Croix de Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite Civil for promoting Franco-American relations, Desist's local reputation zoomed along with his popularity. He had found a home. When he retired from the Army last year, Desist decided to settle down near Orléans, and took a job with a metallurgical concern...
Jungle to Z.I. Behind the heroism of Medical Corpsman Reid and his buddies stretches an elaborate, efficient and increasingly swift chain of medical services-all the way from Dr. Shucart and his fellow surgeons in the jungle to "Z.I." (zone of the interior, meaning the U.S.). And the statistics of survival testify to the operation's success. In World War I, the fatality rate was 5.5% of the wounded; in World War II, 3.3%; in Korea, 2.7%. In Viet Nam, estimates Commander Almon C. Wilson, head of the 3rd Medical Battalion at Danang, it is below...