Word: rails
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...have been directed primarily against what air intelligence officers like to call the "ganglia" of Communist transportation and communications. Right from the start, the most dangling ganglion of the lot has been Vinh, the largest town in the panhandle of North Viet Nam, and the hub of road, rail and trail routes to the south. Last week U.S. Air Force and Navy planes once again pasted Vinh-this time with 77 tons of bombs. The prime targets now lie closer to Hanoi, and there last week the U.S. lost another fighter-bomber to North Vietnamese surface-to-air missiles. Cruising...
Died. William Rand Kenan Jr., 93, Florida industrialist, who, as a chemistry student in 1892, stumbled upon a "dark crystalline mass" that later became the keystone of the billion dollar carbide industry, in 1900 turned to Florida hotel and rail development with his brother-in-law, Entrepreneur Henry Flagler, accumulating a personal fortune of $100 million; of a stroke; in Lockport...
TRANSPORTATION. Authorizes $90 million to develop and test highspeed intercity rail service. The idea is to lure travelers back to trains with fast, frequent runs in modern cars...
Director Kramer, who seldom resorts to nuance when an overstatement will do, gets off to a bumbling start when Actor Michael Dunn, a 78-lb. dwarf, clambers onto the ship's rail to announce: "I'm Herr Glocken, and this is a ship of fools." Wading through heavy condensations of Miss Porter's prose, his fellow travelers check in to introduce themselves: the troubled and tire some young American lovers (Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal), a band of down-at-the-heel flamenco dancers led by Jose Greco, an anti-Semitic Nazi publisher (Jose Ferrer), a gentle Jewish...
...Saigon airport that "in many aspects, there has been deterioration since I was here last, 15 months ago. The size of the Viet Cong forces has increased; their rate of operations and the intensity of their attacks have been expanded; their disruption of the lines of communication, both rail and sea and road, is much more extensive; and they have intensified their campaign of terror against the civilian population." He might have added that there is general recognition that even in the last few months the U.S. has made errors in Viet Nam that have resulted in the Viet Cong...