Army & Navy - COMMUNICATIONS: The Road

With small ceremony, the U.S. Army Engineers celebrated completion of the biggest job in their blueprints since the Panama Canal. Last week the last link in the Akan Highway was made ready for traffic. "The Road" was finally open: a two-way military highway which is the first all-year land connection of Alaska to Canada and the U.S.

When the speeches flowered at the formal dedication last November, The Road was hardly more than a slot in the trees. But while it was still a rough scratch on the earth the Alcan Highway somehow became a smooth fact in the pub...