Word: tunnel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...READ ANYTHING APPEARING WEST OF HOLLAND TUNNEL? STORY OF DORIS DUKE AND HER YOGI WHICH YOU CREDIT TO NEW YORK JOURNAL-AMERICAN IN YOUR SEPT. 29 ISSUE WAS ORIGINATED BY AND PUBLISHED IN THE LOS ANGELES MIRROR SIX DAYS BEFORE MIRROR ENTERPRISES SYNDICATE RELEASED...
...likely to remind most adult males of their more lurid adolescent daydreams. Produced by Darryl Zanuck and vaguely based on the Ernest Hemingway short story, the movie is a Technicolor travelogue that ranges from Africa to Europe to backwoods Michigan, a sort of scenic railway running through a Tunnel of Love...
Alcoa's plan is to dam the Yukon River deep in Yukon Territory, thus raise the level of several lakes near the border. Alcoa would then tunnel 21 miles through mountains and under the fabled Chilkoot Pass to bring the water down through penstocks to the turbines. The generators would be in the rock itself, protected from the weather and enemy bombs. The power would be cheap enough (probably 2? per Ib. of aluminum v. 4$ at Alcoa's most recent U.S. facilities) to offset the cost of transporting alumina all the way north and finished aluminum...
...Gavenda's work detail planned the escape. Prison guards armed with submachine guns patrolled the top of the fortress wall, but the work detail wangled a job close to the tunnel entrance. Each day one man crept into the tunnel and scratched away at the still soft mortar. One of the six men seemed too weak to make the break. This was the one they called Johnny, a shy, silent 24-year-old with pinched cheeks and the jumpy eyes of a man who has spent a long time in solitary. He was having trouble with his feet...
Leopoldov Prison in central Czechoslovakia is a 17th century fortress with walls 39 feet thick. There last December Stepan Gavenda. a tough Czech worker serving a rap for anti-Communist activity, saw a prison work detail taking bricks, sand and cement into a tunnel in the fortress wall. Said Gavenda to his frailer friend Jaroslav Bures. a bookkeeper also convicted for antiCommunism: "Where there is a hole to be filled in, there's a hole to get out." At the first opportunity they explored the tunnel, which proved to be an old gun port, and found...