Word: railings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dien, a major vehicle-repair depot known in Pentagon parlance as the "secondhand-car lot," with a capacity of some 500 trucks. Both had been hit for the first time on Dec. 2; and both were worth a second try, particularly Yen Vien, the country's largest rail choke point, handling one-third of the nation's military traffic...
...Clatter. A dozen Air Force F-105 Thunderchiefs highballed down the main line from the northeast and blasted the rail yards, then continued on over Hanoi, bomb racks empty, before wheeling for home. About the same time, some 20 Navy planes swooped in from the southeast, off their carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin, to raze the used-car lot; and then headed back without passing over the city...
Puzzled farmers of the plateau country between Paris and Chartres have been scratching their heads and stroking their whiskers at the sight of a 170-m.p.h. vehicle that flies without wings astride a single concrete rail. The streamlined craft that keeps the grands-pères guessing is a half-scale experimental model of France's wheelless, one-car "aerotrain." After a year of tests, the French government just gave the go-ahead for construction of a full-sized model that will whisk 84 passengers down a 16-mile test run at speeds of up to 250 m.p.h...
...French National Railroads, Nord Aviation and Hispano-Suiza, ripped up the standard-gauge track between the two somnolent towns, replaced it with a concrete monorail shaped-in profile-like an inverted T. Berlin's aerotrain resembles a sleek silver bus, rides less than an inch above the rail on a cushion of air produced by two 50-h.p. Renault Gordini engines, propels and brakes itself with a 260-h.p. jet-booster aircraft engine rear-mounted on its roof...
...dragged him bodily across the courtroom and into a corridor leading to the U.S. Marshal's office. Later, 20 sympathizers filed out of the courtroom singing "We Shall Overcome," after marshals moved two of Reed's friends from the sitting positions the had taken in front of the courtroom rail...