Word: underpasses
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...only highway leading away from the airport, 1,500 students squatted in a human roadblock. They had chosen well: a spot where the road curves and rises sharply as it emerges from an underpass. U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II landed at the airport in a green Marine H13 helicopter. Asked if he and Hagerty would take the helicopter or a car into Tokyo. MacArthur said, "What the hell, we will drive, of course...
...Cadillac. It sped off, followed by two Fords carrying six U.S Secret Servicemen. Just nine days later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was scheduled to drive the same route with Emperor Hirohito by his side. All three cars bowled along at high speed, but as the Cadillac emerged from the underpass and ascended the curving rise. MacArthur's Japanese chauffeur saw the students squatting en masse on the road and braked sharply...
Gazing resentfully at raw stumps, gaping holes and blocked-off streets, Rome's citizens let out a noise that could be heard distinctly above the traffic's roar. Tunneling for one underpass, charged critics, would irretrievably weaken the 16th century gate at the Piazza del Popolo, as well as whole sections of the city wall built by the Emperor Aurelian (A.D. 270-275). "Our trees are being slaughtered," added Columnist Indro Montanelli. "because they have neither voices nor votes. We are being drowned in a wave of cement...
...Cross Country meet scheduled for yesterday has been postponed until later because of weekend rains, which flooded out the Eliot Bridge underpass and made the track muddy, The House secretaries will reschedule the race at their meeting today...
...TIME, June 13) had been fitted with an underpass and Vienna's first escalators, which contributed their share of excitement (INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE WITH ESCALATORS AND FiDELio headlined one Vienna tabloid). Nearby streets sprouted new arc lights and fresh flowers. Not in years had Vienna's women had a similar occasion for dressing up; archducal and bourgeois jewelry alike came out of hock or hiding. Demel's, Vienna's calorie-proud confectioner, combined Austria's two major treasures-music and food-in an exhibition of sugar figurines representing notable Vienna opera greats, e.g., Sopranos Maria Jeritza...