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...other options under study are even more problematic. "Hard Tunnel" would bury the missiles 3,000 ft. down inside mountains; the "Big Bird" scheme calls for a fleet of mammoth airborne MX launchers. With the more far-fetched "Orbital Basing," MX warheads would be put into orbit only after a Soviet missile launching, and the U.S. warheads could then be directed at Soviet targets at the Government's discretion. The extra time to make momentous decisions would be valuable; the delay in deciding where to put the missiles...
...look out the back window of her boxy clapboard house in Mink Branch, Ky., and see the family business, a small coal mine burrowed into the hillside. One chill morning last month, seven men-including three of her sons and a grandson-were wedged 700 ft. down a narrow tunnel, crawling on their knees and blasting loose great chunks of bituminous coal with an explosive gel. Suddenly, a monstrous explosion shattered the Appalachian quiet. The Joyce Ann shaft (named for a Hamilton widow) had become a quarter-mile-long cannon, and the men inside fodder. Out of the hole...
...their theatrics." He assailed "the knee-jerk reactions and the instant analyses" for being "as hasty as they were incorrect." Contended the President: "We must hold firm to our tax cuts and reduce the budget even more . . . We are at last and at least approaching the bend in the tunnel." Although Republicans control both legislative chambers in Iowa, those lines drew no applause from an audience that was, at best, polite...
...their brush with death. A third had what he calls purely "autoscopic" experiences, in which they remember floating at ceiling height above the operating table (or battlefield) and looking down on their own lifeless bodies. About half had "transcendental" experiences, in which they recall traveling through a dark tunnel toward a bright light. Some, like Owen Thomas, encountered other figures or entered unearthly landscapes like those painted by Hieronymus Bosch. Several patients reported both autoscopic and transcendental elements...
Meanwhile, there is this Sunday to consider. To get to this year's Super Bowl, coming from New Jersey wasn't enough. Coming from a wind tunnel in Flushing also wasn't enough. To be the Cinderella team of 1981-82, you had to come from a swamp in California...