Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Underground Stage...
...past meetings, Stubbins has considered construction of an underground stage, so that the building will harmonize with the surroundings and the street noise can be minimized. Other features which might have been included in the sketches approved yesterday are a library, a workshop theatre, and an adjustable apron on the main stage which can be raised and lowered to meet various production demands...
...specific procedure is that whenever unidentified and unidentifiable shapes show up on U.S. radar, e.g., the $500 million DEW line across Northern Canada and Alaska, or the ship-based radar networks in mid-Atlantic and mid-Pacific, a SAC alert is declared. In his underground command post at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, General Power or a deputy orders one of scores of Emergency War Plans-E.W.P.s-designed to meet every calculated contingency to be put into immediate operation. SAC flashes its orders-"PLAN BLANK"-to any or all of some 70 SAC bases worldwide. At the bases...
...hand. The gunman fired a sixth shot and disappeared among the shoppers. The victim, who died a short while later, was a man especially disliked by EOKA terrorists: William Dear, 61-year-old police interrogator of the Special Branch. He was the first Englishman killed since the Greek Cypriot underground declared its truce 13 months...
Failing it was. The rebels' vaunted, 5,000-man Havana underground stayed mostly underground; at week's end one disgruntled group of rebel commanders denounced Castro's Havana lieutenant, Faustino Pérez, 35, as a "traitor" who refused to order the terrorist attack that was vital to make the strike work...