Word: transpeninsular
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...unlimited bus travel for $175-or go for a fly-and-drive tour of the Northwest. Travel within the U.S. has shown a marked increase, notably in the South and West. Alaska and Hawaii have also enjoyed a bumper summer. Heading south into Baja California along the new transpeninsular highway, gringo travelers have discovered such little-known Mexican resorts as Puerto Escondido, Loreto and Mulegé, all moderately priced; Manzanillo, on Mexico's Pacific Coast, promises to become the world's next deep-sea fishing capital. Nicaragua and Colombia are also enjoying a vogue. For the gregarious...
...week's end the victors had pushed two miles above Ortona, were ten miles below Pescara, Adriatic terminus of the shortest transpeninsular rail-and-highway to Rome. Theirs had been the most notable gain in another week of hill-by-hill advance up the Italian boot. Through dead Ortona, the Canadians trudged after the retreating, fighting Germans...
...Italy the hill-by-hill drive inched ahead. General Sir Bernard Montgomery's Eighth Army grappled with stoutly resisting Germans for ridge tops and villages barring the way to Pescara, Adriatic terminus of the shortest transpeninsular road to Rome. On the Tyrrhenian side of the Apennines, General Mark Clark's Fifth Army climbed and clawed the mountain slopes where Wehrmacht pillboxes blocked the old Via Casilina route to the Tiber. By week's end, after three bloody days of artillery and infantry fighting, the Fifth took San Pietro village, moved toward the key Liri Valley town...
From captured Sangro Ridge the Eighth ground on. By week's end they had advanced ten miles, were 14 miles from Pescara, where the shortest transpeninsular roads cut westward through the Apennines toward Rome. But the Germans were by no means routed along the Adriatic. They had nasty machine-gun nests on every roadside slope up to Pescara. They posted expendables in every village. They counterattacked; at one place, Orsogna, they turned back an Eighth spearhead...
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