Word: roading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civilian dead in II Corps total 1,100, the wounded 4,000, the new refugees 103,000. Some 12,000 houses were destroyed and another 4,000 heavily damaged. The security of the corps' road network is about the same as pre-Tet, but that is not saying much; even then, an armed convoy was needed to traverse all major roads. Sixty of the 252 R.D. teams assigned to hamlets are still out of position, unable to go back because security cannot be guaranteed them. One area abandoned: the coastal strip just north of Qui Nhon...
...begin reconstruction of houses. In Tay Ninh province, building materials and food supplies arrived as soon as the Communists were routed from Long My, and cash payments of $42 were made at once to each homeless family. The Communists made a major effort to cut the corps' road system, mostly by blowing up bridges, but all but one of the corps' major roads have been kept open, with no break lasting longer than 24 hours...
...story gives Widerberg a chance to play games in the trees and the grass and the flowers. At times he is successful. The mock gunfight between Sparre and his friend on a huge old tree is a beautiful tableau. When Elvira and Sparre walk up a road, the scene has the haunting quality of a Munch painting. But these two scenes are the only truly fine outdoor sequences that are properly exposed. In the rest, the greens are mercilessly washed out in white light; exposures are nearly always one to two stops...
...students who graduate each year from the university in Port-au-Prince, 1000 go into law; for law is the road to politics, and politics is the source of wealth...
...Built in 1958, the $3,500,000 Speedway is really two tracks: a two-mile road course for sports cars and the stock-car "trioval"-a roughly triangular, 2½-mile circuit with two high-speed turns banked at 31° and a third turn banked at 18°. The banking, the perfectly smooth asphalt paving, plus the track's unusual width -three cars can race abreast-make it the fastest race track in the world. In qualifying trials for last week's tenth annual Daytona 500, the top 13 qualifiers ran the course at more than...