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Most of the Communist reinforcements are concentrating in such plateau provinces as Kontum and Pleiku, where the only fire brigade at Westmoreland's disposal has been the overworked 1st Cavalry. To lend them a hand, a 4,000-man contingent from the Army's 25th
...some of the ruts could swallow a Volkswagen alive. Yet in the eyes of former President Juscelino Kubitschek, who built the road between 1956 and 1960, BR-14 is "the highway of dreams" for underdeveloped Brazil, and the means to "a new civilization on the central plateau...
...economic infrastructure for his country. Soviet engineers cut the world's highest road tunnel through the Hindu Kush escarpment at Salang Pass; Americans erected a vaulting jet airport at Kandahar, the country's second city; together, they have pushed miles of highway across the high, harsh plateau. Along the Helmand River, eight U.S.-financed hydroelectric dams began rising...
...them IBM, General Electric and General Motors, reached new highs. Though the market had gained 62½ points in the past two months, increasing the chance for a corrective dip, Wall Street remained determinedly optimistic. Whatever happens to stock prices, trading activity seems to have reached a new high plateau, where commission profits are keeping the brokers happy...
...shadow of a hanged man last week lay across the arid Anatolian plateau. It was that of Adnan Menderes, who was overthrown as Turkey's Premier in 1960, tried by the state, and sentenced to death. Menderes' peasant-based Democratic Party was banned, and the triumphant Republicans of wizened old Ismet Inönü took over. But Menderes' popularity, it seems, has only ripened with time. Barely a fortnight before the nation's general elections, his unofficial successor, Suleyman Demirel, 41, stands a chance of winning the lion's share...