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...White House, and Johnson's lingering image as the crafty manipulator has done him immense harm. Many Americans seem convinced, as one observer of the presidency has written, that Johnson is a man who believes that "the shortest distance be tween two points is through a tunnel...
...Tunnel Vision. On their bombing runs, U.S. pilots need all the sophisticated hardware and know-how they can get. Never have they gone up against such a dense and withering air-defense system. There is flak, small-arms fire from rooftops, increasingly frisky MIG fighters and portable surface-to-air missiles. To complicate their mission, Washington demands high-precision pinpoint bombing to avoid endangering civilian populations; pilots must get in close, fast, and make no mistakes...
...plan for flood control sounds just as other-worldly. He hopes to build an immense "deep tunnel" 700 feet below ground. Water would flow down there during a storm and would be pumped back up when the danger of flooding had abated. The tunnel would double as a power generator with water being pumped up during slack hours and running down during hours of peak demand for electricity. Engineers say the scheme is feasible, according to Bacon...
...builder and boss of Raymond International Inc. construction firm since 1953; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A specialist in the big and bold, Raymond International built the Strategic Air Command bases in Spain, the major government buildings in Brasilia, Chesapeake Bay's awesome 171-mile bridge-tunnel and, most recently, in combine with several other firms, the vast complex of airfields and harbors in Thailand and South Viet...
...made headlines last spring when Defense Secretary McNamara emerged from Quincy House to find some 800 demonstrators and onlookers blocking his way. Ultimately McNamara was forced to escape through the Leverett tunnel to the Central Kitchens. Harvard apologized officially for the incident, and so did a substantial part of the student body in a petition, but for SDS it was a major achievement to have confronted one of the chief symbols of the Vietnam...