Word: tunnels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, Manhattan's 855 Madison Ave. had been an outlet for a Gristede grocery store, surrounded by shops selling electric appliances, antiques and furs. But by last week, the space had been remodeled, with huge plate-glass windows, an aluminum tunnel entrance and, inside, distinctive orange carpeting that climbed right up the walls. It had become Yves Saint Laurent's Rive Gauche, his boutique beachhead in the U.S. And in the fashion world, Yves's name is magic. Along the police barricades, students from nearby fashion schools and aspiring models draped themselves, many in versions...
...least two years after its originally scheduled takeoff date of mid-1974. Boeing, understandably red-faced, denies somewhat defensively that it has made a final decision. But the economics of its swing-wing B-2707 has forced the Seattle company to put practicality over pride. Although wind-tunnel tests showed that the movable wing could perform well aerodynamically, it developed an insuperable weight problem. Carrying the 313-passenger payload envisioned for it, the 375-ton swing-wing SST would have had about one-half of its planned range of 4,600 miles-meaning that it would have...
...company originated as a track builder for Western railroads. It undertook dozens of rail projects, notably a 725-mile stretch (with 45 tunnels) of Western Pacific line through the Sierra Nevada and the Feather River Canyon. In the 1930s, Utah started its all-out expansion. It became one of Six Companies, Inc., a consortium that also included Henry Kaiser and Morrison-Knudsen Co., which bid jointly on Hoover, Bonneville and many another mammoth engineering project in the booming West. The Six Companies have long since separated, but Utah is still heavily involved in construction. It currently has a $102 million...
When the regime runs into a counterrevolution, Armah allows his anti-hero the magnanimous, near-heroic gesture of saving Koomson's life. But even here the author compels him to tunnel out of a latrine...
...benefit of hallucinogens? Such was the offer being made last week by Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Gallery. To bring off the most spectacular environmental light show ever staged, the gallery had assembled $400,000 worth of materials and labor in its "Magic Theater," a kind of transistorized tunnel of light designed by eight leading U.S. light, kinetics and environmental artists...