Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accepted for the race, entrants must pay a $50 entry fee for insurance, and $200 to charity. Everybody pays for transport and gas. Plus the traffic fines, which are not inconsiderable. The Cadillac boys had about a half a dozen apprehensions, which cost them dear time in their race with the Ferrari. And one entrant was stopped at gunpoint for looking suspicious in Arizona...
...transport, the world's biggest plane, lumbered off the runway at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airbase, carrying 243 Vietnamese orphans destined for adoption in the U.S. and 62 adults. The children were the first to leave Viet Nam in an official and well-intentioned American program to evacuate 2,000 orphans and bring them to the U.S. Minutes after takeoff, the pilot radioed that his rear loading ramp was defective; he had lost control of his elevators, rudders arid flaps. Seven miles out of Saigon, he made a sweeping turn and headed back to Tan Son Nhut...
Fearful that the enemy is infiltrating along with the refugees, the government is setting up guard posts on the roads leading into Saigon to keep out any additional outsiders. Cyclos (pedicabs) have been banned because the government fears that Communist sappers might use them to transport satchel charges into the city. In an effort to prevent riots or a possible coup attempt, new army orders forbid civilians to congregate in groups on the streets or off-duty soldiers to carry their weapons in the capital. Many Saigonese fear rape and rampage by their own troops as much as they dread...
...even informal families or much of a future in Viet Nam. Even before the current crisis, some 2,000 of these war waifs had been assigned to adoptive parents-mostly in the U.S.-but could not leave until the South Vietnamese and U.S. governments cleared much paper work and transport became available...
...then--relief, North Station, The Boston Garden. A gleaming, glistening, brand new depot, underground, no less; a bold stop forward in transport engineering. Looks every much like the Back bay stations along the Green Line. Same white tile. Same casually elegant indirect lighting. Same lack of real appeal. Also large grainy back and white phonographs on the Walls evocative of the neighborhood upstairs. Lions (the circus, presumably), basketball players, ice skates (Orr's?). Idle speculation as to the subjects of the photographs when the Red Line is extended and Harvard Square has its own new station. A college of caps...