Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Years Late. Mumford's profoundly reactionary answer to the megamachine is to throw a monkey wrench into it and send it down a time tunnel. Go back to Benedictine monasteries, where work was a "byword for zealous efficiency and formal perfection." Discover new prophets of "modest, humane disposition," like Jesus and Confucius. Establish new routines, such as the Hebrew Sabbath that "found a way of obstructing the megamachine and challenging its inflated claims." Abandon the modern constitutional equivalents of ancient kingships and revert to Neolithic culture. In other words, Mumford would perfect man with weaving, pottery and thatched-village...
With Wally and Tom in one car and the inspectors following, the trail led through Manhattan's afternoon rush-hour snarl, through the Lincoln Tunnel (no radio reception there), down the New Jersey Turnpike to Newark Airport. All evening and most of the night, the tailing went on, from scruffy diners to B-girl bars, across Hackensack Meadows on Fish House Road, around rail-truck terminals. In the long hide-and-seek, the cars got separated, and the chief feared for Wally's life. But Wally played his part well. He later emerged with a carton of counterfeit...
...completion of the project. In December, the formal plans for the Boston section of the highway would be announced. (Sargent was taking a "soft" line and trying to alter the DPW's image of constructing "inhuman" "ugly" highways; the DPW's plans for Boston included a 3000-foot tunnel through the Fenway district of the city and a tunnel under the Charles -- both significant concessions to complaints raised by private groups in the city...
...chaps together with some real know-how." Prestressed concrete was used for the 16 radial buttresses, while the roof was prefabricated from huge slabs of concrete hauled into place by the largest tower crane in Europe after a model of the cathedral was tested in a wind tunnel to prove it would withstand the impact of three Boeing 707s...
Nowhere nearly so lucky was Italy's No. 1 driver, Lorenzo Bandini, 31. Roaring out of the tunnel into sunlight, Bandini's Ferrari caromed off a guard rail, slammed into a lamppost, flipped over and burst into flame. It took rescuers four excruciating minutes to pull him out. Doctors charted ten chest fractures and third-degree burns over 70% of his body. Three days later he died...