Word: railings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bridges, roads and other bombed facilities. A major project: establishing a primitive "grid" of interconnecting roads to offer alternative routes if the bombings resumed. Antlike swarms of work gangs took an average of only 48 hours to repair bombed roads, as little as 72 hours to fix shattered rail lines. Where the rail damage was too extensive to repair, work battalions often ran one train up to a bombed-out stretch, then transferred its entire cargo to a train waiting on the other side...
...years the court of Spain's Christian kings. Ferdinand and Isabella were married there in 1469; Columbus died there in 1506; Cervantes probably wrote the first part of Don Quixote there. But its glories were brittle, and Valladolid faded into a shabby market center and rail junction...
...supplies are backed up in Saigon's warehouses and docks awaiting transshipment to other bases and field units. For the problem is not only unloading ocean vessels, but getting supplies out where they are needed. With a large part of South Viet Nam's road and rail transportation out of commission, most goods must be moved up the coast in World War II LSTs, which are able to disgorge their cargo in shallow water right on the beach. Currently only 14 LSTs, manned largely by Japanese, are available to do the job. But last week the Pentagon...
Blackout. Last week Kaunda's pleas for British troops carried a new urgency. A narrowly averted incident on the border with Rhodesia led him to pull his own small army back to Lusaka to avoid an accidental clash. In the rail center of Livingstone, the town's first race disturbance-a minor scuffle in which nobody was seriously hurt-caused 300 white railwaymen to strike for government protection, and the walkout crippled the nation's copper shipments. Three hundred miles to the north came the most serious incident of all: saboteurs blew up the main power line...
...missile sites, mostly in the complex, one of them only 22 miles from Hanoi, the closest strike yet to the Red capital. For the first time, American aircraft last week lashed out at the vital communications link between Hanoi and Haiphong, loosing 49 tons of bombs on a rail and highway bridge. In two other missions, they blasted the main railway and the main highway running northeast from Hanoi to China...