Word: underpass
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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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...