Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expressway leading to Chicago's International Amphitheatre, workmen slapped a new coat of silver over the mud-spattered dividing rail. On streets surrounding the hall-many of them barred to all but VIP vehicles-lampposts were painted kelly green. Even fire hydrants were touched up by the painter's brush. Redwood fences, in a rainbow of pastels, hid junkyards and trash-strewn lots from the eyes of passing drivers and their passengers...
...Soviet Guards Tank Army and the Twenty-Fourth Soviet Tactical Air Army were mustered in East Germany. Hard by Poland's frontier was a detachment of Polish Silesian infantry and more than 3,000 Soviet tanks and troop-carrying vehicles were less than 25 miles from the Czechoslovak rail center of Zilina. Part of the Soviet Third Army manned Russia's Carpathian border with Czechoslovakia, while to the south, a huge Soviet troop convoy waited inside Hungary. Token forces from Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany and Hungary had also been put on battle-ready status. Air bases in Poland...
...stranglehold tightened last week on Biafra, where the secessionist forces of Lieut. Colonel Chukwuemeka Ojukwu are encircled by the federal Nigerian army. Only three cities remain in Biafran control: Umuahia, Owerri and Aba. Of these three, by far the most vital to Ojukwu is Aba, a trade and rail center of 100,000 before the war and Biafra's provisional capital. It was at Aba that Nigeria's 3rd Division, moving steadily north from Port Harcourt, aimed its assault...
...Avanzo's union may not have been striking, but the 180,000 daily commuters on the Long Island Rail Road could hardly tell the difference. Because of a 30% curtailment of normal service, which the state-owned Long Island blamed on a slowdown by D'Avanzo's car repairmen, overcrowded trains whizzed by their usual stops, forcing thousands of frustrated commuters to abandon the platforms in search of other transportation to their jobs. Engaged in a dispute with the ailing Long Island over job security, the union conceded that its men were refusing to work overtime...
...with New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The union may strike or show its grievance with a slowdown. Even if it chooses the latter course, says Union Chief Frank Tedesco, the troubles for the city's 4,500,000 daily subway riders would "make the Long Island Rail Road tie-up look like minor-'league activity...