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...only slightly less trouble in his sensible effort to consolidate five uncoordinated traffic and transportation agencies under a single overseer. One effect of the change would be to remove Robert Moses, 77, the city's longtime super-planner and master builder, from the chairmanship of the Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority...
...Along a tunnel 4,850 ft. beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, explosions rumbled like artillery fire. Sweet-smelling dynamite and ammonium nitrate fumes poured into the tunnel from a cavern where some 30 to 40 tons of ore had just been blasted loose. In an immaculate, cement-lined chamber nearby, a hoist operator scanned two closed-circuit TV screens that monitor the ore buckets, make sure they are dumping properly into large collection bins. Above ground, at the end of the production process, refinery workers were pouring Brick No. 37,035-a 30-lb. hunk of solid gold...
Other officials are worried that the government will eventually ask for time--instead of effort--reports from professors. But though University administrators have for years fought a time evaluation, there are some officials who believe it is inevitable. "It's the light at the end of the tunnel," said one man, "but we don't know exactly how long the tunnel...
Even without CS, tunnel life is grim for the Viet Cong. A diary captured in a complex north of Saigon last week carried a typical lamentation: "Oh, what hard days! One has to stay in a tunnel, eat cold rice with salt, drink unboiled water!" That was the last entry. Next day, Tran Bang, the 29-year-old diarist, was killed in an American assault on the once-inviolable underground world of the Viet Cong...
...will prevent all sudden overflows into the river. Sewage will be carried to an underground chamber on Magazine Beach near B.U. Bridge. Here the stormwater will be retained and chlorinated and then discharged into the river. The rest of the sewage flow will continue through the Boston Main Drainage Tunnel, as it does now, and be treated at the Deer Island sewage plant in Boston Harbor. Until the Deer Island plant was constructed last year the untreated sewage was discharged into Boston Harbor...