Word: caving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A re-creation of last year's mine disaster at Springhill, Nova Scotia, in which, amazingly, twelve men were found alive a week after the cave-in, seven more two days after that...
...Maharajah of Jaipur, a picnic tea at the deserted Moghul city of Fatehpur Sikri, a moonlight visit to the Taj Mahal, a visit to Chandigarh, the city designed by Le Corbusier, and a polo match in Delhi. From Bombay, Bangalore, Madras and Calcutta, Philip will inspect everything from ancient cave sculptures to an atomic energy plant. But one of his unstated missions was something else: to find out just what sort of reception his wife would get should she come to India...
...hopefully sets out on a writing career with a ?250 legacy. His tactics might seem strange and austere to modern graduates of schools of creative writing, summer conferences, or writers' workshops. He pays four years' advance rent on an attic, a "cave" where he can "agonize in secret," buys some paper, a Waterman Ideal pen, a bed, a mug, a plate, a crate of oranges and a sack of coarse oatmeal. Except that he is "tired and sick to death of all people who on earth do dwell," he has no enemy in the world. But soon...
...Interior Department last week announced plans to pour $650,000 down two holes in the ground. The holes: Crystal Cave and Great Onyx Cave, small caverns adjoining Kentucky's huge (51,000 acres, 150 miles of passageways) Mammoth Cave National Park. Ever since 1941, when the U.S. received Mammoth Cave's stalactite-studded underground chambers as a gift from Kentucky, the National Park Service has been thirsting to take over Onyx and Crystal to make up a more attractive tourist package. Last year the Park Service dickered with private owners, agreed to pay $365,000 for low-vaulted...
...Where now rests (on exhibition at $2 a look) the metal coffin of Spelunker Floyd Collins, whose body was transferred from nearby Sand Cave, where he was trapped in 1925 and finally died during an 18-day rescue attempt that attracted international attention...