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...Operation Mallet, hammering at a tunnel-and-village complex a scant 15 miles southeast of Saigon. The Thors: some 2,000 men with tanks and artillery of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division...
Verne's underground hike would, have taken far less time, says Cooper, if he had simply fallen into a frictionless tunnel bored through the earth's center. Accelerated by the force of gravity on the first half of his trip, he would have gained just enough kinetic energy to coast up to the other side-against the pull of gravity-in a total time of only 42.2 minutes...
With pick and shovel, the boy from Gourtloughera helped dig the city's last big subway tunnel. When he worked in a subway change booth-an 84-hour week for a $27.72 pay envelope-the need for a union was obvious. With six others, he started the T.W.U. in 1934 and became its first president. "We were dealing with a lot of young Irishmen who came over from secret organizations," he said. "They liked the secrecy and the intrigue. I liked it too. It never left...
...tunnel had three levels, each connected with another by concrete trap doors, linked to the forest floor above by intricate air vents and concrete cover plates. On one plate, its architect had proudly scratched "1962" in the setting concrete. Choppers worked overtime ferrying in explosives as the allies systematically explored-and then destroyed-the labyrinth. Among its contents: four truckloads of enemy maps, documents and training pamphlets, a typewriter, tons of rice, stacks of still cosmolined .50-cal. machine guns rigged with antiaircraft sights, and even Western pinup pictures. So extensive was the haul that Saigon suspected it might have...
Died. Clark Blanchard Millikan, 62, California Institute of Technology aeronautics professor, a leading pioneer in wind-tunnel research and recipient, with his late father, Caltech Head Dr. Robert A. Millikan, of a 1949 Presidential Medal for Merit for their contribution to the development of the jet-assisted take-off rocket (1941) and the U.S.'s first successful high-altitude sounding rocket (the 1945 WAC Corporal); of congestive heart failure, in Pasadena, Calif...