Word: railings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans with metal sheeting and cement to anyone who wanted to replace his lost home. Hospitals, schools, pagodas and churches were given priority for restoration. By Christmas the Phu Cam cathedral, partly destroyed in the battle, was reopened for Mass. Hué's isolation eased last month when rail service to Danang, 75 miles to the south, was restored...
...prancing their way past the reviewing stands of judges, who choose the winner. A total of 43 escolas de samba are taking part this year, and the larger ones, like the Estacāo Primeira de Mangueira-last year's champion, named after a stop on a suburban rail line-bring 7,000 participants into their act. While the poor flood into the limelight, the rich and the middle class either leave town or amuse themselves at exclusive balls. Individual tickets for the Municipal Theater Ball, the poshest of them all, run to $50, a box for eight...
...Interstate Commerce Commission deserves every one of its superlatives: it is the oldest and largest of the federal regulatory agencies - and the most ineffective. Overseeing some 18,000 companies involved in transport by truck, rail, waterway and pipeline, the ICC regulates industries that account for 20% of the gross national product...
...amendments that run for 425 pages. Johnson Administration economists, testifying in Senate hearings last summer, argued that the ICC was fated to be "a dead hand on industry" and ought to be abolished. Another criticism came last month from the Department of Transportation, which, in a study of rail-merger patterns, scolded the commission for paying scant attention to broad economic questions and for rubber-stamping in "a rather random manner" individual mergers as they come along...
...years ago, Alan S. Boyd refused an offer to head the Association of American Railroads and accepted in stead Lyndon Johnson's appointment as the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Last week Boyd joined the rail roads after all - under a different Johnson. He took the post of president of the Illinois Central Railroad, succeeding William B. Johnson, 50, who will be come chairman while remaining chief executive. "W.B.J.," as he is known around the railroad's Chicago headquarters, will also continue to head the parent Illinois Central Industries. It is a holding company that owns more than...