Word: roadways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outside her Fifth Avenue apartment, there were the Jackie watchers. One afternoon, after collecting young John at school, Jackie found herself and her Secret Service escort followed by several carloads of reporters. Finally, after a wild chase, the Secret Service man managed to slew his white convertible across the roadway, forcing the reporters to a screeching halt while Jackie's Cadillac disappeared...
...twelve years' work in six." Eager to aid Peru's impoverished peasants, he launched a whirlwind campaign to build houses, schools, rural airports and roads. The symbol of his dreams for Peru was a new highway cutting into the trans-Andean forests, each mile of roadway completed opening up 3,500 acres of land...
...mall will span 385 feet and will be lanscaped with shrubs, trees, grass, and lighting fixtures. The tunnel below the mall extends for approximately 75 of the 1,500 feet of the new roadway...
...Ibar suspension cables apparently came-at ten minutes to 5 p.m.-on the upriver, Ohio side. To Dick Kuhn, 18, a gas-station attendant, it sounded like a shotgun volley: "I thought some nuts were dusting ducks under the bridge." Then the upstream side of the roadway tilted in surreal slow motion, spilling sparks from a parted power cable into the dusk and an estimated 60 vehicles onto the weedgrown riverbank and into the 6-m.p.h. current beneath. "It looked like a snake wiggling across the water," one witness exclaimed. Said another: "The bridge just keeled over, starting slowly...
...Shorts. Once Parliament decided to switch, Swedish bureaucracy mobilized with terrifying efficiency. Psychologists made studies of drivers and pedestrians; traffic engineers surveyed Sweden's 70,000 miles of roadway from Malmo to remotest Lapland. Thousands of new signs and traffic lights were ordered and every home, hospital and prison received manuals detailing the 107 basic European road symbols that would replace the helter-skelter Swedish markers. To make sure foreign workers and visitors got the message, the Commission on Right-Hand Traffic printed pamphlets in nine languages from Portuguese to Serbo-Croatian...