Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urge you to remember that Americans often grow impatient when they cannot see light at the end of the tunnel -when policies do not overnight usher in a new order. But politics is not magic. And when some of our fellow citizens despair of the tedium and time necessary to bring change-as, for example, in Viet Nam today-they are forgetting our own history...
...APCs churn forward once more. In their wake comes a line of bulldozers. They level anything still standing. What was once a good-size jungle becomes a desert piled with brush. Occasionally, there is an enormous explosion as "the tunnel rats," having excavated a Viet Cong burrow, blow it up. When it is all over, only the stench of cordite mingling with Cu Chi's grey dust and the drifting blue smoke of bombs lingers over the desolation. Cu Chi will not soon harbor Viet Cong again, at least...
Goyette said that the University would also prefer that the tunnel be built to allow for future construction within the Radcliffe Yard. No buildings are now scheduled for the Yard, he said, but with "the shortage of land being what it is in Cambridge, we don't like to lose any good building sites...
...MBTA has yet to release final plans for its extension to Porter Square in North Cambridge. However, most observers believe that the MBTA strongly favors the route that would take the tunnel beneath the Yard. The subway would then go up Massachusetts Ave, to Porter Square, where it would use existing railroad tracks and continue further into North Cambridge...
...University will study how deep the tunnel should go, and how thick the concrete shell of the tunnel should be, to minimize surface effects of the subway. Goyette emphasized, however, that until the MBTA makes final its design for the extension, the University will be unable to begin 'detailed studies...