Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haiphong, previously a proscribed area. Last week, from attack carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and from bases in Thailand and South Viet Nam, fighter-bombers blasted six new targets: a Haiphong factory that turns out 95% of the North's cement, the country's biggest rail-repair yard just 2.5 miles from the center of Hanoi, a power transformer seven miles from the capital, a 738-ft. bridge on the Canal des Rapides across which all the traffic from Communist China and 30% of the North's war materiel are conveyed...
...Land where gun fights take place every hour, a "safari" through a man-made jungle (where kids can ride on an elephant, a zebra, an ostrich or a llama). For thrill seekers, there is the Gyrotron, a $3,000,000 contraption that allows tourists to strap themselves into miniature rail cars and then be hurtled through a maze of environments that begins with a terrifyingly realistic "orbit" among the stars, careens on through the hellish jaws of a live volcano crater. On opening day, the mechanism broke down, stranding passengers in the volcano and providing Expo with its first mishap...
Critics may rail at the technological supercharge of the "light brigade." Artists wail at the fragility of their new medium (fuses blow, bulbs burn out). But almost any exhibit that lights up in a gallery draws people like moths to a candle, or like children gazing into a burning hearth. In the following color pages, TIME reproduces the work of twelve luminal artists (and one luminal committee), photographed in galleries and studios in the U.S., France, West Germany and Britain...
...province-and, indeed, in much of the rest of South Viet Nam -is that they are receiving ever larger amounts of aid from their allies. Intelligence sources reported last week that the Chinese and Russians, who have been quarreling about the transit of Russian aid across China by rail, have reached an agreement that will speed the flow. North Viet Nam's Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh went off to make a pitch for even more aid in Peking, Moscow and East Berlin, where the East German Communists are holding their party congress. From the Communist camp outside Viet...
Earlier Western European lines spread out from North Sea ports over relatively hospitable terrain, following the movement of refineries to fast-growing inland markets, which cannot be supplied by costly, inadequate rail transport. So strong is the demand for oil now that even the expense of crossing the Alps is no longer an economic obstacle. Though T.A.L. cost its owners, a consortium of 13 oil companies led by Esso and Shell, an average $500,000 a mile, its Trieste terminal, where the first tanker put in from Kuwait last week, is advantageously close to Mideast and North African oil sources...