Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motion (see color pages). Once, European tourists returned from a visit to the U.S. talking of Manhattan's skyscrapers. Today they talk of the U.S. road. A ride across the arching bridges, down the six-lane expressways, under the water and beneath cities, even through buildings, past automated toll booths, in and out of sweeping cloverleafs is an experience few Europeans can farget. On the intricate stacks of downtown Los Angeles, where motorists peel off like jet fighters, on the rolling expanses of the longest toll road-the 561-mile-long New York State Thruway-U.S. drivers...
...does not feel the need of sleep or coffee breaks can drive from Boston to Chicago in less than 24 hours without hitting a traffic light (1,141 miles on the Massachusetts Turnpike, New York State Thruway, Garden State Parkway, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio turnpikes, Indiana Toll Road, Calumet Skyway...
...Hammarskjold's doomed plane, two men arranged the cease-fire he had set out to negotiate. After a two-day session, Katanga's President Moise Tshombe and U.N. Negotiator Mahmoud Khiari signed a provisional truce, ending the eight-day Battle of Katanga. Unofficial death toll: 44 U.N. troops, 152 Katangese police and soldiers, 79 African civilians, 14 European civilians...
...palace!" Two blocks away a cordon of militiamen opened fire. The boy carrying the Virgin's picture fell dead. Most of the crowd scrambled wildly for cover; a few fell to their knees and inched forward. Castro's men moved in, swinging clubs and rifle butts. The toll: one dead, six wounded...
...bulk of the death toll came in two waves: 1) on Thursday, July 20, when French planes blasted Bizerte for hours, 2) two days later when French paratroopers rained grenades and mortar shells on the close-packed houses of the casbah. In. Bizerte, the myth of the poor quality of the Tunisian fighting men finally died. Dirty and stubble-chinned, they clung to their positions. Four Tunisians held up an entire French company for four hours, killing five paratroopers and wounding 15, and battled on even after two medium tanks had blown to smithereens the houses in which they were...