Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the Berlin Wall went up in August 1962, at least 69 persons have died attempting to scale it. But 3,510 refugees have managed to slip through it, tunnel under it or scramble over the top. Three weeks ago, work began on a higher, sleeker model. Virtually complete last week was a new 250-yd. section near the old Reichstag. Atop the 12-ft. structure, engineers placed lengths of circular pipe denying any potential climber a handhold...
Backbone of Stanford's linear accelerator (called SLAC) is a 10,000-ft.-long, 4-in.-diameter copper tube housed in a concrete tunnel and buried 25 ft. underground to protect scientists and any bystanders from its fierce radiation. At one end, an electron beam is generated in much the same manner as the beam inside a home TV picture tube. Injected into a nickel-size hole that runs the length of the copper tube, the beam's electrons are immediately accelerated by 6,000,000-watt microwave pulses generated by 245 klystrons-giant, ultrahigh-frequency radio tubes...
...London that their meeting was somewhat premature. On the big issues of NATO, the Common Market and Viet Nam, the best that the Yorkshireman and the Auvergnat could do was agree to disagree. However, the two leaders did decide to go ahead with the historic, $560 million channel tunnel to link Dover and Calais, and Wilson's wine cellar proved admirably equal to the premier occasion: one luncheon carte included a 1934 Château Margaux and an 1878 Grand Fin Bois...
...Endless Summer. To surfboard enthusiasts, a new wave film is an epic celebrating the cool of a bronzed athlete atop a ten-foot slab of polyurethane foam, shooting through a tunnel of sea-green water formed by a breaker's curl. "The ultimate thing in surfing is to be covered up by the wave," says Bruce Brown, a blond, 28-year-old Californian who probably qualifies as the world's foremost exponent of pleasure before business. A Bergman of the boards, Brown makes his pleasures pay, and has pushed his income into a fun-filled six-figure bracket...
...Africa also means higher costs for employers. Not the least of the problems is that the contractors stand to lose many of the hard-working desert veterans, who have a habit of settling where the job takes them. Cogefar, another Milan company, is about to begin a $56 million tunnel-boring job for a hydroelectric plant on New Zealand's Tongariro River. Many of the 400 skilled GH Insabbiati flying out to do it will probably never return to Italy...