Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week conceded that it may have to ground its Convair 990 before the plane ever goes into production. Reason: the 990 has developed a mysterious "drag" that keeps it from hitting the promised 640-m.p.h. cruising speed that would make it the world's fastest jet transport. Wind-tunnel tests to be completed next month will provide the data to determine whether the time and expense of eliminating the drag will be too great to bear...
After six months at Northwestern University, Beatty was bored, quit college and went to New York, where he found even more boredom working as a sandhog on the new tube of the Lincoln Tunnel. Shifting to show business, he played tinkly-tonk cocktail-hour piano in a bin on 58th Street, saved enough money to take a six months' course at Stella Adler's acting school. Scoring minor successes on television (Studio One, Playhouse 90), he eventually won a screen test with Director Joshua Logan, who asked him to demonstrate his kissing talents, using Actress Jane Fonda...
...silos containing 100-ft.-long radio antennas that rise along with the missiles and guide them on their way. At the concreted entrance tower, 13 steps spiral downward to a portal and a blastproof revolving door. Behind the door, 69 steps drop underground to a cool, yellow-painted steel tunnel 1,687 ft. long and lined with cables, pipes and tanks for water, diesel fuel and liquid oxygen...
...From the tunnel, smaller passageways slide off to the missile silos, each 165 ft. deep and 40 ft. in diameter. Other tunnels lead to the antenna silo, and to a circular power house 70 ft. below ground where four generators purr out power enough for a city of 5,000 people...
...chief center of scientific interest is a tunnel cut into a mountain of soft rock, its mouth now blocked with a complex ventilating system. Four years ago a bomb exploded in that tunnel, and as the cavity that it made cooled down (both in temperature and radioactivity), scientists studied it intensively. It can now be entered without danger, is serving as a guide for future underground tests. Other tunnels, still too hot to enter, are explored chiefly by drilling...