Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was at least one eerily unseasonable spectacle: On Chicago's Roosevelt Road, the scene of three nights of hot-weather rioting last July, Negro hoodlums methodically pillaged stores and trucks, and looting by whites and Negroes alike was common in other parts of the city as well. More than 100 persons were arrested. At one point, police caught ransackers breaking into a Roosevelt Road shoe store. In the exchange of gunfire that resulted, a ten-year-old Negro girl was killed...
Rock V Roll. When they are not patrolling, the Marines help the villagers and try to get to know them better. In Phuoc Trach, a fishing village on the populous coastal plain below Danang, CAC protection allowed Navy Seabees to build a bridge connecting the village with the main road to the provincial capital. In the past, villagers had to sail up a Viet Cong-controlled river to reach their market-and pay plenty of fish in tribute along the way. The Phuoc Trach Marines have even taught their Vietnamese friends how to dance to rock 'n' roll...
...General Anastasio Somoza Sr. seized power in 1936 and launched his dynasty, Nicaragua was a typical down-at-the-peels banana republic. Though he dealt ruthlessly with critics, sometimes having them tortured, the general organized a social-security system and a labor code, built Central America's best road and hospital systems and brought the country its first real economic and political stability. When he was assassinated in 1956, his oldest son Luis took over, later putting power in the hands of two successive puppet Presidents. This year Tachito decided to try to take what he practically considered...
...from Argentina to Alaska, and the same idea occurred to her while covering the war as a freelancer in Viet Nam. Why not drive from Ca Mau, at the nation's southern tip, to the Demilitarized Zone in the north along 600 miles of ragged road and Viet Cong? In December she started out, her car sandbagged as a defense against land mines...
...should not be forgotten, however, that this reasonable middle road is possible only because some critics have taken positions which are not so moderate, not so balanced and blandly phrased. Those who have pushed out the spectrum on the left have claimed new territory for the middle, safe ground to which these "concerned" and "doubting" students may scamper. That's the way the system works, of course: push hard on the left, and make way for the moderates. Human nature abhors a political vacuum...