Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proportion to the strength of a civil defense system of blast and fallout shelters (see chart), now virtually nonexistent. With reasonable time to evacuate, a complete shelter system might cut the death cost to 3%. Other practical steps, e.g., sheltering mothballed machine tools and moving key industrial plants underground, might help U.S. industry return to normal within a decade...
...truce offer of Colonel Grivas, leader of the Greek Cypriot EOKA. Next day the British government -still seething at the recent murder of Lieut. Colonel Fredrick Collier as he watered his flowers at his bungalow near Limassol-was officially silent. But the nameless leader of the Turkish Cypriot underground movement, T.M.T., also agreed to call off all attacks "until further notice." Cyprus, which has seen 127 killed in gangland-type slayings in less than two months, breathed a sigh of relief...
...forwarded to the Paris headquarters of the Direction de Surveillance du Territoire, the secret-service arm of the French police. The D.S.T. has long warred on the F.L.N.'s clandestine organization in France, which levies taxes to finance the rebels in Algeria, operates an espionage network and an underground escape route. The F.L.N.'s biggest coup occurred this spring, when it smuggled out of the country an entire soccer team made up of star Algerian players (TIME, April 28). In combatting the F.L.N., French secret police have made thousands of arrests, but they mostly pick up small...
...soil, 2 ft. of concrete or 2½ inches of steel. Hoegh hopes to find many a shield of that size readymade. In addition he will finance architectural and engineering research on methods of incorporating more sophisticated shelters into new homes and buildings. He would also pick an underground garage, school or hospital under construction in each state, put up the extra cost of adding shelter facilities, then urge local governments and industry to emulate the example. All in all, in an age when missiles have become a real threat, Hoegh's plans represented a modest beginning...
...well wonder why the earth's hot interior is not used as a source of energy, in the manner of volcanic steam power plants in central Italy. Last week Pacific Gas & Electric Co. of California announced that it has struck a deal to make electricity out of underground steam produced jointly by Magma Power Co. of Los Angeles and Thermal Power Co. of San Francisco...