Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote to prove to the convention delegates that the people were indeed speaking his name. The crowds suggested that they were. At the Gary airport, 5,000 people waved and shouted at him, their voices reverberating in a huge hangar. "Do you want to go down a new road," asked Nixon, "or go down an old road with new faces?" The throng left no doubt that they preferred the Nixon route...
...need contemporary men," says Arizona's Der Alte. "Time makes specialists of us all. In building a house, there is a moment for the foundation, a moment for the walls, a moment for the roof." He reasons that he has supervised the construction of Arizona's basic road, water and power facilities through federal projects. Thus the state can do without the seniority that made him president pro tempore of the Senate, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and one of the upper chamber's most influential...
...North Vietnamese had fortified the hills of A Shau with hidden antiaircraft guns, some of them radar-controlled and able to hit a plane at 20,000 ft. Using Russian-made bulldozers, they had widened the old French road running down the valley center, Route 548, to six lanes, and built a brand-new road called 547A that branched off from another road, Route 547, and emerged from the valley aimed straight at the heart of Hue. Such passable weather as A Shau ever knows comes in April and May, and three weeks ago, under the tightest secrecy...
...Treasure Hunt. Delaware's strategy, planned and executed by Lieut. General William B. Rosson, called for a multipronged drive. The 101st Airborne moved down from the east on the Communists' own new road, accompanied by a regiment of South Vietnamese paratroopers. Another South Vietnamese force also closed in from the east. The job of taking the valley itself fell to the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile), two of whose heliborne brigades began leapfrogging in from the north. The first day was a near disaster, as Communist gunners destroyed or damaged 20 of the Air Cav's helicopters, including...
...Army of South Viet Nam (ARVN). We had problems in almost every possible category of military activity when I first came here. The ARVN had problems in training, leadership, equipment, personnel and logistics. All of these either have been eliminated or are well on the road to elimination. In fact, the ARVN has become an effective fighting organization, as it well demonstrated during the Tet offensive and in numerous actions since...