Word: cave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battle Hymn. High among the wild, beech-clad uplands, not far from the cave where a German bomb wounded Tito in 1943, the old campaigner of the Balkan Mountains and the younger conspirator of the Cairo barracks spent the night together in an army tent. Tito regaled his guest with the story of how his desperate 19,000, surrounded by a ring of 120,000 German and other troops, buried their hard-won field guns, slaughtered and ate their packhorses, and then, losing nearly half their number in the charge, fought through the supposedly impassable Sutjeska River canyon, broke through...
...normally a William Saroyan fan, but I have to admit that he has outdone himself in writing The Cave Dwellers, which enjoyed a good run in New York this season. The play is a semi-realistic allegorical fantasy--sunny, warm and moving, especially in the second...
...over Sweden factories are going underground. The firm of Bolinder-Munktell, manufacturers of engines, housed itself in a cave shelter shortly after World War II. More important, the Swedes discovered that building underground-in terms of construction and maintenance-often costs less. Airplanes, precision instruments, munitions, radios are also made in below-ground factories; hydroelectric power is generated in stations tucked inside mountains; cavernous hospitals are complete with X-ray rooms, operating theaters, fully equipped wards...
...typical cave factory, workers descend by escalators, take their place at assembly lines lit by mercury lamps. The air is changed four times an hour, given freshness by the addition of ozone. Claustrophobia is avoided through the use of windows that look out on painted landscapes and cloud-filled skies...
...Spread. In 1953, when Ruschi was bat-hunting in the back-country state of Mato Grosso, he found a cave piled three feet deep with dead and dying vampires. This looked promising, so he collected sample bats and hurried them to his laboratory. From them he isolated germs that will spread from bat to bat and kill them in 120 days. "The long incubation period is good," says Dr. Ruschi. "It helps the victim spread the disease before he dies...