Word: tunnels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inspired by wild discrepancies in reports of earlier UFO sightings, Science Students Terry Warren, James Gould and Douglas Eardley decided to perform a complex "gullibility experiment." Working secretly in a steam tunnel under the Caltech campus, they rigged balloons out of polyethylene sheeting and filled them with an inert gas-probably helium. From the bottom of the balloons they suspended metal rods, each with fins and a railroad flare fastened to its lower...
...four different nights, after walkie-talkie-equipped lookouts radioed that campus guards were out of sight, the students slipped out of the tunnel, lit the flares, and launched their experiment. As the balloons soared skyward, wind caught the fins on the dangling rods and started the burning flares rotating like slowly twirling beacons...
...only slightly less trouble in his sensible effort to consolidate five uncoordinated traffic and transportation agencies under a single overseer. One effect of the change would be to remove Robert Moses, 77, the city's longtime super-planner and master builder, from the chairmanship of the Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority...
...Along a tunnel 4,850 ft. beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, explosions rumbled like artillery fire. Sweet-smelling dynamite and ammonium nitrate fumes poured into the tunnel from a cavern where some 30 to 40 tons of ore had just been blasted loose. In an immaculate, cement-lined chamber nearby, a hoist operator scanned two closed-circuit TV screens that monitor the ore buckets, make sure they are dumping properly into large collection bins. Above ground, at the end of the production process, refinery workers were pouring Brick No. 37,035-a 30-lb. hunk of solid gold...
Other officials are worried that the government will eventually ask for time--instead of effort--reports from professors. But though University administrators have for years fought a time evaluation, there are some officials who believe it is inevitable. "It's the light at the end of the tunnel," said one man, "but we don't know exactly how long the tunnel...