Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sole explanation for his current displeasure with England. The awkwardness of the British position on MLF provides him with a convenient target for retaliation for other things. The new Wilson government has informed Paris that it would like to "revise" schedules for building the superconic airline Concorde and the tunnel under the Channel. The British wish to delay these projects because their cost would upset their austerity program. But de Gaulle is upset by Britain's new reluctance because he hoped the Concorde would cut significantly into American domination of the profitable airline industry...
...mile tunnel that slices through the rolling countryside behind Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., was built for one purpose only: to house a linear accelerator with a beam of 20-billion-volt electrons that might knock stubborn secrets out of atomic nuclei. The accelerator is not yet complete, but its construction has already led to a striking discovery in the unexpected field of paleontology. A bulldozer digging a trench at the end of the tunnel veered a few feet from its guideline and uncovered a ponderous and peculiar skeleton...
...through a stern pound-protecting program. A new 15% tax on manufactured imports will have the effect of doubling tariffs, adding 28? to a bottle of sherry and $225 to a Volkswagen. The government also started to "re-examine" the joint Anglo-French projects to build the Channel tunnel and the Concorde supersonic jet transport (the French feel certain that Britain will try to pull out of the Concorde). On top of that, the government announced a tax kickback for exporters, amounting to 1.5% of the value of goods shipped...
...stung by the white world's slights, is full of hate, and no more winning than any other angry young angry. The girl is not a girl but a soiled and weary woman who admits that men have come and gone in her life "like traffic through a tunnel." Typical of the show's erratic focus is Joe's response when he finally loses Lorna. He and the chorus launch not into a lover's lament but a rousing, anvil-hard hymn of civil righteousness: "I ain't bowin' down no more...
...General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, who died in April at 84, was appraised at $2,131,941.89, bequeathed to his widow, Jean Faircloth MacArthur. Composed primarily of securities, it included 2,205 shares of G.M. (worth $180,258.75), Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority and Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel bonds (together worth $291,007), and 1,903 shares ($34,254) in Sperry Rand Corp., whose chairman he had been since...