Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vegas, Nev., the hearses and funeral cars of Bunker Bros. Mortuary are painted baby blue...
Compared to the other new embassies in the diplomatic enclave of New Delhi set up by Nehru, it is. About the only people who ever had any serious objections to it were its chief occupants, Ambassador and Mrs. Ellsworth Bunker. Bunker, a man of conservative tastes, complained about the lacy grille that covered the great expanse of glass, plaintively said. "I want to see the blue sky." Mrs. Bunker, who not long ago began promoting long-handled brooms for Indian sweepers-and thus closely resembled the character in The Ugly American called "the woman who unbent the backs...
...quarters of the U.S. embassy in Argentina, she demanded bigger rooms, toilets and even balconies, instead of the sparse quarters that Europeans customarily provide for their help in India. "Can you believe it?" said she. "They weren't even going to have chimneys for their stoves." Harriet Bunker's crusade cost an extra $250,000, probably delayed the completion of the building 200 days. But it was worth it. "This is a real landmark," said one Indian last week. He was talking not about the jewel-like chancery itself, but the motel-like adjoining servants' quarters...
...last week's countdown was delayed only 27 minutes for a minor technical difficulty. Running the test and pressing the big button was a man appropriately named for the job: Engineer Bob Shotwell, 47. With great restraint, Shotwell and his 40-man launch team quietly waited in their bunker a full seven minutes after the lift-off before they dared shout. Then, says Shotwell, "everybody started congratulating everybody. We knew we had done it. It was going like a bullet; nothing could stop it." To celebrate, the Atlas contractor, Convair, launched a bubbly champagne party at the nearby Starlite...
...except the public well. Next to the well stood the ruins of the ancient temple that served Kukang's 180 families. In the rubble of shattered homes, the villagers had found 18 of their number, dead or maimed. Others have died since-one family of six in its bunker-the hapless civilian victims of the grotesque Red China assault that takes place every other...