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...hole bored in solid schist. Shifting from that ladder to a creaky elevator cage, they hoist themselves higher still. Beside the cage as it moves upward-to a mere 5,600 ft. below the earth's surface-water streams down the timbers used to shore up the shaft, acting as both lubricant and fire preventive. In the hot shaft it sounds, and feels, like a tropical rain forest. Shiny with sweat, Burns and Aberle leave the cage and head down another tunnel toward their blasting box. "Cover your ears!" Burns yells. Counting ten under his breath, he pushes...
George Arnold, a varsity golfer and former soccer player, failed to convert on any of the first half point-after chips as most of the attempts looked like duck hooks with the driver. But he did manage to let out some shaft with several booming kickoffs to the goaline and made good on his only PAT in the second half...
...Dalton Pass Chapter of the reservation passed a resolution late last spring calling for a halt to all uranium exploration and mining on their lands. The impact was nil. Development continues unabated as the TVA-Mobil-United Nuclear consortium project expands from uranium exploration into mine shaft and mill construction. The miners will be drawn from the Navajo population, with the "specialists" being non-Indian experts from outside the reservation. This project, in conjunction with the many other coal and uranium mining projects, promises to make a uranium boom town out of a hitherto traditional Navajo community. In turn, according...
...didn't realize my rigger was bent until after the race," Laine said yesterday. "My oar kept slicing into the water on the shaft, and I just thought I was having...
...Perini Corporation, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) contractor for tunnel construction, plans to dig an 80 by 40-ft, hole, known as a "haul shaft," at the corner of Garfield St. and Mass. Ave. Cambridge residents have turned long-standing complaints about this shaft into affidavits for the suit as part of its new focus...