Word: northbound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Akihiko Okamura is a courageous, persistent Japanese photographer who set out last April to see what the war in Viet Nam is like from the Communist side. Armed with six cameras, 182 rolls of film and a Vietnamese dictionary, Okamura, 36, simply boarded a northbound bus out of Saigon and sat tight. He did not have to wait long. Some 500 yards beyond Bencat, a government stronghold 27 miles from the capital on Route 13, five Viet Cong in dark green government uniforms boarded the bus. Two miles later, they ordered the driver to stop and invited the photographer...
...their frustration is their own fault; it is all but inconceivable to the average mind that on such an elaborate interlacement of roads, eastbound traffic on the beltway cannot go north on Route 355; westbound beltway traffic cannot go south on Route 355; southbound on 355 cannot go west; northbound on 355 cannot go east on the beltway; and motorists coming from Pittsburgh cannot head north on Route...
...wheel housing of a southbound freight car. The loose lost wheel caused the last three cars to derail and sprawl across the adjacent track. Seconds later, alerted by a warning flare, a passenger train southbound from Tokyo halted on a clear track beside the freight. At that moment, a northbound commuter train roared up the middle track. The locomotive crashed into the derailed freight cars, did a right angle flip and sliced through the fifth and six coaches of the passenger train. The first rescuers recoiled from the carnage. Recalled one: "There were bodies piled four to six deep. There...
Darkness was settling on New York City's Henry Hudson Parkway one Sun day last May when a northbound car suddenly plunged through a six-foot di vider hedge, skittered into the south bound traffic and smashed head-on into another car. All of the people in the northbound car - a seven-year-old boy, his greatgrandparents, his great-aunt and a friend of the family-were killed. The driver of the other car was gravely injured. Motorists braked to a stop and hurried to the wreckage. In the midst of a gathering crowd, Gareth Martinis, 23, peered into...
...hopelessness. In startling contrast gleams the prosperity of North Italy, which has replaced the U.S. as the near and visible promised land in the dreams of impoverished Sicilians and Calabrians. "California begins at Milan," runs the current folklore of South Italy and each day hundreds of southerners board northbound trains to seek the living wage they cannot find at home. Last year some 70,000 of them settled in Milan alone...