Word: network
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When the Viet Minh were waging their bloody battle against the French, Red China constructed a road and rail network into North Viet Nam. Since then, blue-clad Chinese laborers have been hard at work on roads linking Yunnan and Laos. With the aid of these routes, the Red Chinese colossus is believed mobile enough to move twelve divisions-about 120,000 men-from China to Hanoi in a month's time...
...British government has always kept the TV commercial at arm's length, as if it were a particularly odorous fish. The state-owned British Broadcasting Corp. will have nothing to do with it at all. On Britain's single commercial TV network, the government allows no sponsored programs, confines commercials generally to short intervals between programs and carefully regulates their length and tone. Last week the Labor government took regulation a step farther. As part of the government's vigorous antismoking campaign it ordered a strict ban on all cigarette advertising on the telly, which cigarette companies...
Solving the equation of the Soviet economy would clearly be a computer expert's supreme triumph, since it would involve programming some 50 million unknowns and 5,000,000 constants all in motion. The Kremlin has endowed a Central Economic-Mathematical Institute to explore the feasibility of a network of 50 key computer stations across the U.S.S.R. linked to a "Big Daddy" blinker in Moscow. Presumably the monster would constantly engorge raw data on the economy at the local level, process it in Moscow, and electronically burp prices and other economic orders back to the provinces...
...Hannibal's, across the frozen peaks and deep valleys of the Alps. Scheduled to begin operating in 1967, the $150 million, 300-mile Trans-Alpine Line will eventually carry more than 40 million tons of crude oil annually. It will be the biggest to date in an expanding network of pipeline that is pouring oil from the wells of the Sahara and the Middle East into the world's fastest-growing petroleum market...
Under Land & Sea. Another new pipeline, a 546-mile Central Europe network that will carry 12 million tons of crude oil across the Alps from Genoa to Switzerland and Germany, is near completion. It climbs to a maximum height of 6,480 ft., snakes through seven mountain tunnels, makes 85 river crossings on its own bridges and has special equipment to reduce the tremendous oil pressures that would otherwise build up on its steep declines. In Germany, construction will begin this year on a large petroleum products pipeline between Cologne and Frankfurt, and a German consortium will soon start building...