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...Also on the Cooper flight, a capsule system designed to remove moisture and perspiration became clogged with metal shavings from a pump shaft...
Food, flashlights and tools could be sent down to them. These sustained life-and sanity. But the passage that had been drilled was not nearly wide enough in diameter for a human body, no matter how emaciated, to pass through it. In trying to drill a shaft wide enough, the rescuers ran into endless, maddening failures. While families and friends of the trapped miners, along with more than 200 newsmen, gathered around in agonized vigil, the rescue team's drill bit deeper toward Fellin and Throne. With every turn of that drill the danger increased that the rescue efforts...
Finally, delicately, near the end of the eleventh day, the drill bit nuzzled through the underground prison's rooftop. Now the diameter of the rescue shaft had to be widened to 18 in. Then on the 14th day, down through that shaft came two pairs of coveralls, to which parachute harnesses had been sewed. Fellin and Throne wordlessly put on the costumes, smeared each other with grease that had also been lowered to them. Throne went first, attaching his harness to a line from a hoist on the surface. A few minutes later Dave Fellin surfaced, bearded, grizzly...
...Moab, Utah, an unexplained explosion trapped 25 men 2,700 ft. deep in one of the world's biggest potash mines. Seven workers built a barricade of tubing and burlap to trap pockets of fresh air for themselves while rescuers gingerly worked their way down into the shaft. The seven were saved-but 18 others perished...
...first time in many years," said the President of the U.S., "the path of peace may be open." He saw the nuclear test ban treaty initialed in Moscow as "a shaft of light" in the midst of the discord and disillusion of the postwar years. Measured against the broad range of issues that divide East and West, the treaty is a limited achievement, but the President pointed out that it is "an important first step-a step toward peace-a step toward reason-a step away from war." With what was, in the light of the cleavage within the Communist...