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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Orientalist and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer writes in a perceptive analysis of the war, a settlement of any sort may be out of reach "until one side or the other recognizes that it faces eventual defeat." In a Look magazine excerpt from his forthcoming book, Beyond Viet Nam, Reischauer reasons that with negotiations apparently out of the question for the time being, the U.S. has three choices, "all of them unsatisfactory...
...being pumped from the islands at the rate of 56,000 barrels a day, and production is expected to reach 200,000 barrels a day by 1970. As each well is brought in, the oil rig, along with its high-rise cover, is moved along a rail to the next spot for drilling. Underground pumps send the oil through submarine pipelines to refineries on shores...
...cars, hopping over fences, even taking gates off hinges in their frenzy to escape the colossal traffic jams. One motorist needed 45 minutes to drive the two miles from the airport's entrance to the Eastern Air Lines terminal. Another left Greenwich, Conn., early enough to reach Kennedy a full hour before his scheduled 8:30 p.m. Swissair departure, only to find himself at the end of an endless, motionless line of autos when he got to the field. Both missed their flights...
Every airport manager in the nation is aware of the looming crisis, and many have already begun to grope for solutions. Cleveland recently decided to extend its rapid transportation lines four miles to reach its Hopkins airport. Chicago has mulled over the possibility of damming Lake Michigan near the Loop for additional airfield space. And New York is debating a fourth airport, which may be 50 miles or more...
Boudreaux wanted to do metal work, but he could not reach a workbench from a wheelchair, and anyhow, he could not sit on the ulcer at the base of his spine. He had heard about stand-up beds and tilt-tables-so why not convert a wheelchair into something similar? Therapist Robert E. Craig and Dr. Hodge M. Eagleson Jr. worked with Boudreaux in perfecting a sort of surfboard-wheelchair combination...