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...mighty blast echoed deep inside towering Mont Blanc (alt. 15.781 ft.) last week, and a thick wall of rock crumbled in a dense cloud of smoke and dust. A mile and a half down in the Alpine depths, tunnel workers from Italy and from France scrambled over the settling debris to meet in grimy embrace and exchange flags, helmets and undershirts. They cheered hoarsely: "Viva la Francia!" "Vive I'Italic!" Waterfalls & Soft Rock. It was the breakthrough for the world's longest vehicular tunnel, stretching 7.2 miles* beneath the icy, forbidding Alpine massif to join Courmayeur, Italy...
Wine & a Chorus. After the last rock barrier fell last week, the weary tunnel diggers joined high officials and journalists in a gala celebration over a huge buffet of salami, ham rolls, petits fours, 200 bottles of French champagne and 450 bottles of Italian wine. High and happy, one French worker improvised a dance with an Italian driller who poured wine and mineral water over him as others sang and clanked empty bottles in accompaniment...
Palisades Park (Freddy Cannon; Swan). Hot dogs in the tunnel of love and passion on the roller coaster. Cannon recalls it all in the classic tradition-braying and honking against a clanking, socked-out beat. His message: "You'll never know how great a kiss can feel/ When you stop at the top of the Ferris wheel...
...protection factor of at least 75 that could be increased to a factor of 100 "in most cases fairly easily and inexpensively." If ten square feet is allotted per person, the preliminary report suggested that almost 50,000 persons may be sheltered in buildings connected with the University's tunnel system...
...world's most exciting auto races. The course plunges wildly through the 368-acre Mediterranean principality itself, swooping up the narrow streets from the harbor, past the Hotel de Paris and Cartier's, and zigzagging down again from the Casino gardens through a tunnel to the waterfront...