Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nowhere nearly so lucky was Italy's No. 1 driver, Lorenzo Bandini, 31. Roaring out of the tunnel into sunlight, Bandini's Ferrari caromed off a guard rail, slammed into a lamppost, flipped over and burst into flame. It took rescuers four excruciating minutes to pull him out. Doctors charted ten chest fractures and third-degree burns over 70% of his body. Three days later he died...
Last year Lyndon Johnson promised a program to protect the nation from large-scale crippling strikes. He has yet to propose such legislation. Last week, faced with one of the nation's recurring rail crises, he pledged at a press conference to propose a workable formula that would exclude compulsory arbitration so hated by labor. Next day the President produced a plan that would astutely avert a strike-without eliminating compulsory arbitration...
...their way to victory on the hilltops, the planes of Operation Rolling Thunder, code name for the U.S. air campaign over the North, continued to cripple the North's military potential. Having already knocked out the 738-ft. Canal des Rapides bridge, over which all supplies coming by rail from Red China funnel into Hanoi, U.S. pilots went to work last week chewing up the spider web of rail yards and lines north of the bridge. Time and again they hit other key targets on Hanoi's outskirts, including the Ha Dong army barracks, which had previously been...
Critics & Crowds. Naturally, there were also record-breaking queues for restaurants (caused partly by too-small kitchen facilities), rest rooms (the Soviets' ladies' room had but two cubicles), and intra-Expo transportation (the mini-rail was so popular that some visitors wanted to spend all their time just riding on it, and officials are now considering imposing a time limit). Montreal's Metro was so jammed that guards had to close down one station because of the panicky crush; workmen hurriedly placed another 500 trash cans on Expo's grounds to hold the extra refuse...
...Interstate Commerce Commission approved the historic merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central last year, only to see it tangled in legal challenges. Last week-a year later to the day-the ICC bestowed its blessing on a rail merger that it hopes will be consummated with minimum delay. Highballed to join on June 1 were the Chicago and North Western and the smaller Chicago Great Western, whose get-together could save the two lines $6,000,000 a year...