Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five, whose apartment abutted the Wall, skidded down a rope dangling from a bedroom window. The same night, a trio of dusty girls popped into the basement of a West Berlin apartment after a harrowing scramble through a 450-ft. tunnel whose mouth lay in an East Berlin coal-yard. But border guards soon found the tunnel and blasted it shut...
...across the Apostolic See." Yuk. Chancellor Erhard, someone announced, admiringly changed the name of Unter den Linden to Unter den Lyndon. Hah, hah, jawohl Within the Republican Party there is a "strong underground movement" for Richard Nixon (onto the screen popped an old news photo of Nixon wearing a coal miner's headlamp...
...chart thousands of square miles of the Soviet Union, have also moved into the realm of commerce. They spot diseased trees in a lumber company's forest, take a quick inventory of grapes while they are still on the vine, measure the size of a coal stockpile for a utility company and point to the best spot for a coal miner to dig in. The Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio even takes aerial-type shots of a steer, then analyzes the animal's "hills and valleys" to get an accurate reading of how much meat...
Nuclear or Else. Should P.G. & E.'s plans at Bodega Bay be frustrated, Gerdes nonetheless intends to build other reactors elsewhere. He has little choice but to go nuclear. California lacks the coal and natural gas with which to produce inexpensive electricity, and Gerdes must thus develop P.G. & E.'s nuclear capability or face the possibility that the company in a few years may be unable to meet the state's growing electrical demands. It might then be forced to raise prices-now below the national average-in order to build more conventional power plants. President Gerdes...
...deep below the ice to study the metabolism of seals. They have located the world's southernmost volcano, analyzed bacteria left by explorers 50 years ago (the tinned food and biscuits left by Captain Robert Scott's men in 1902 are still there today, perfectly edible), mined coal-proving that Antarctica once had a tropical climate...