Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University Planning Office has started preliminary studies on ways to next Harvard-Radcliffe property from the effects of a subway tunnel beneath Radcliffe Yard...
Thus-if Peking could be believed-began the first tangle between American and Chinese airplanes since Korea. The outcome was predictable. "He seemed to be a pretty good pilot," said Dudley of his adversary, "but he apparently had a case of tunnel vision when he bore in on the RB-66 and never knew we were behind him. And one mistake is all you get." Dudley dropped the MIG with a heat-seeking missile up the tail pipe...
...presence is courtesy of Eugene McDermott, a director of Texas Instruments Inc., who was a college classmate of Calder. But the selection came only after a number of sculptors-including David Smith, Richard Lippold and Jean Arp -were considered. Scholars at M.I.T. tested the Calder design in a wind tunnel, then they buried beneath it a time capsule that included a Betty Crocker cookbook, a Sears, Roebuck catalogue, 1964 coins, M.I.T. memorabilia, and a copy of TIME...
...prospect is not pleasing: the new subway tunnel represents a threat of permanent vibration, and while construction is underway, the Yard would be a monumental mess. MBTA engineers would probably use a cut-over technique of construction through the Yard; that is, they would dig down from the surface, build their tunnel, and then relandscape the surface when the tunnel is completed...
Mahoney termed the order an extension of his order last year which placed special mufflers on some busses, enabling them to use the tunnel beneath the Square...