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Companies soon found other advantages to an underground business. In 1960, Amber Brunson, 77, president of Brunson Instrument, a maker of precision optical devices, set up a plant in the caves because vibrations in a surface building posed problems. Once the operation got going, Brunson found that he was also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Subterropolis | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

It is not certain how far Holbein wanted these drawings to be taken as finished works of art, but the fact that he did not discard them even when they had been developed into paintings suggests that he placed more than instrumental value on them. But whatever the cause of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Clear Eye, Flawless Touch | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

This is the third year of his tenure at A.B.T, which is currently playing an ambitious eleven-week season at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House. His initial goal was to create a strong, youthful corps de ballet and to lessen A.B.T.'s chronic reliance on international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Adding Some Sizzle at A.B.T. | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

In an effort to divert the magma, Italy's minister of civil protection summoned a team of volcanologists. The strategy: to redirect the lava from its southward path into a wide hollow, away from inhabited areas. The specialists hoped that spreading the lava would speed its cooling, and thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Challenging Mount Etna's Power | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

The volcano last week showed contempt for those trying to conquer its fireworks: it released a poisonous cloud that swept workers from its slopes, showered gray ash on the nearby town of Giarre and sent a new river of lava toward the Rifugio di Sapienza, a tourist shelter it had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Challenging Mount Etna's Power | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

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