Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...landslide was the peaceful Nicolet River. About 15 years ago, the river changed its course and left only a dry bed near the school and the cathedral. Apparently an underground stream continued to flow beneath the old river bed. eroding the soil and rock to form a natural tunnel that finally collapsed. One consolation was that the crash came on a Saturday; on a schoolday the death toll might have run into hundreds...
Students driving to New Haven before early Saturday morning who wish to take the fastest routes from the Wilbur Cross Turnpike are advised to get off at either the Whitney Ave. exit at Hamden or the Whaley Ave. exit after the West Rock Tunnel and follow the turn-offs direct to the Yale campus...
...convicts broke out to the main gate before being beaten back. ¶1934: nine convicts and a guard died in "The Lincoln Day Break." ¶1952: a loo-ft. tunnel was discovered shortly after prisoners were given a dinner by the warden for digging no tunnels during the previous year. ¶1953: a convict-made bomb killed Prison Manager Albert Gruber. A two-day riot and $500,000 fire killed one prisoner, destroyed five buildings. One-quarter of the prisoners (400 men) held a "sleep strike" after using barbiturates to go on a mass bender...
...other discontented officers, got caught. Sent before a firing squad with 17 others, he saved himself by feigning death after bullets only nicked his leg. Talked his way into army hospital, after which Arbenz & Co. relented and sent him to prison. Escaped spectacularly to foreign exile by digging a tunnel under the wall of Guatemala City's National Penitentiary. From neighboring Honduras in June 1954 he walked into Guatemala at the head of 400 half-trained volunteers, and, backed up by four vintage fighter planes, defeated or won over the contingents of a 6,000-man regular army that...
...smiling face of a curbside bankteller in front of the Cambridge Trust Company is but an illusion perpetrated with the aid of two mirrors, a seven foot tunnel, and a genial Mr. Gooding. The deception began in 1952 when the bank in stalled the drive-in teller as a convenience for its mobile patrons...