Word: montana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispersal and the massive impregnability of the installations themselves. In all, some 20,000 workmen are digging out about 37.5 million cu. yds. of earth, replacing it with 1,600,000 tons of steel, 2,700,000 tons of concrete, and hundreds of miles of electrical ganglia. In Montana alone, 150 Minuteman silos will be dispersed over a 20,000-sq.-mi area, nearly twice the size of Maryland. They have been designed to withstand any nuclear blast short of a direct hit on their steel and concrete doors. From generators to toilets, everything that goes into an underground complex...
...where Comedians Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols and Elaine May all began their careers-will bring a new revue to Broadway (Sept. 26). Comedian Mort Sahl is this season's man behind the Golden Theater's 9 o'clock curtain (Dec. 26); and French Actor-Singer Yves Montana" will do a one-man soiree full of songs...
Rain splattered last week over the northern plains, but it was too late and too little to save them from the ravages of an all-too-familiar plague: the summer drought. After a summer so far almost without rain, the all-important spring wheat crop in Montana, the Dakotas and the Canadian prairie provinces will be a near failure. Some of the fields are hardly worth harvesting; others have been mowed for forage. East of the Rocky Mountains most of the ranges are bare, and cattle are being fed with trucked-in hay or grain. If heavy rain falls...
...allies have not formulated a united program on Berlin. The official U.S. policy has always been to maintain Western rights in Berlin at whatever cost. But Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield last week proposed a dangerously nonsensical notion for lumping prosperous West Berlin and blighted East Berlin together as a "free city." Mansfield stressed the fact that he was speaking as an individual Senator, but he is the Senate's Democratic leader and a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Last week the levels in irrigation tanks sank low from the Dakotas to New Mexico. Montana wheat farmers expected slender harvests this year. Utah ranchers gazed out upon dried-up springs and pondered how to water their herds. In Nevada...