Word: rails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandmas, unworkingmen, stiletto-heeeled tootises, and ordinary crowd material. They mill around the closed-circuit TV's, the long rows of betting windows, the beer and hot dog stands. They wander back and forth eating popcorn, spilling out to the open-air section by the track, crowding against the rail at the finish wire. Some flourish fistfuls of money, looking like scarecrows stuffed with green straw...
...during cattle drives and hanged without trial any they captured. Today, things are changed. Take the case of New Mexico Rancher George Farr, who last week had to fight off not rustlers but the U.S. Air Force. Farr was driving 500 head of cattle from his ranch to a rail head 40 miles away; the Air Force was about to fire an Athena missile from Green River, Utah, to White Sands, N. Mex. Farr figured that the cattle and the second stage of the missile would reach the same piece of trail at the same time, doggedly persuaded...
Heinrich Albertz was mayor of Berlin for somewhat less than a year. He is, by all reports, an affable man: a pastor fond of saying that "besides the Bible a rail-road schedule is the only book that doesn't lie." When, last month, his own Social Democratic Party (SPD) forced him to resign, he became the first victim of a political struggle which may reshape German politics...
...lines of communication, over which its war supplies are funneled from China and the port of Haiphong to the south. Returning to the normally proscribed 20-mile-wide buffer zone along the Chinese border, U.S. airmen scored direct hits on the previously damaged Lang Son bridge, the major rail link between Hanoi and China. Venturing within one minute's flying time of the Chinese border, U.S. raiders knocked out three previously untouched highway bridges over which the North Vietnamese had been trucking supplies in an effort to offset the rail delays...
...airmen continued the strategy of trying to cut all rail and road access to the port of Haiphong so that incoming supplies will not reach the war zone. For the third time in a month, they bombed a highway bridge only eight-tenths of a mile from Haiphong's heart, this time dropped the center span. Scratching another target from the dwindling list of forbidden objectives, they hit a fuel dump at Tien Nong, seven miles northwest of Haiphong. The storage tanks were believed to hold 700 tons of oil for North Vietnamese trucks and power stations. The estimate...