Word: caving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is the general confusion that let Odysseus out of the giant's cave, and in the scramble, the real ethical problem- to what extent one should tell the committee, not about oneself, but about others-is obscured. The very term 'witch hunt' is obscurantist...
Also on the bill is Walt Disney's first try at CinemaScope, a Technicolor cartoon called Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom. Though the cartoon shows a strong UPA influence, it clings to the saccharine sentimentality that has often plagued Disney. Cluttered with tweeting birds and comic cave men, the wide screen loses its panoramic effect in a flood of blaring music and garish color...
...Horse Cavers were told, could speed the tank leakage beyond hope of control. Already a heavy fog had carried hydrochloric-acid fumes half a mile away, where they killed a bean crop. Worse still, arsenic compound could seep through the famed Kentucky porous limestone into Hidden River, in the cave beneath the town, and contaminate the area's water supply...
...Horse Cave offered the poison to chemical companies, free. There were no takers. Health officers refused to let the poison be poured into an abandoned well or buried in "some no-count piece of land." Someone suggested towing the stuff down the Mississippi and dumping it in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard said no, it would kill too many fish...
Last week Kentucky's Senator Earle Clements wired the White House demanding that the Army relieve Horse Cave of its "mortal danger." He was refused. That left Horse Cave just where it started: fearfully waiting for the rain which might release a surge of the witch's brew...