Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scrubby, rolling country northwest of Rome lies rich archaeological pay dirt, but the worthwhile pockets are as hard to hit as producing oil wells. Some of the underground tombs left by the Etruscans who lived there 2,500 years, ago still contain priceless art treasures, while others, robbed centuries ago, are not worth the trouble and expense. When a modern, authorized graverobber (archaeologist) finds a tomb and digs laboriously into it, he often finds only dust and broken crockery. Last week Amateur Archaeologist Carlo Lerici was proving that modern scientific techniques can take the gamble and much of the secret...
With Zeal & Energy. Wallenberg went. He arrived in Budapest listed officially as third secretary of the Swedish legation, his luggage bulging with information on Hungarian underground agents and secretly pro-Allied officials of the Hungarian government. Operating with enormous zeal and energy, he persuaded Hungarian officials that if a Jew claimed neutral citizenship he should not be deported until the truth of his claim had been established. This done, he promptly affixed to the homes of some 20,000 such Jews signs that read: "Under the Protection of the Swedish Legation." He rented 32 houses in Budapest in the name...
Inevitably, the purposeful young (32) diplomat came under Gestapo surveillance. Just before the Russians entered Budapest in January 1945, he went underground. When the Russians arrived, he made contact with Marshal Malinovsky, Red Army commander on the Hungarian front, who advised Stockholm, via Moscow: ". . . Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg well taken care of by army authorities...
...Philip G. ("Bow-wow") Bowker, 57, of Brookline declaimed: "It's a disgrace to tie the hands of medical researchers. I have two incurable diseases† in my body, but they are controlled because of animal experimentation. If it were not for that, I would be six feet underground...
...room hotel on the site, which will be one of Boston's biggest, and the city itself will spend up to $7,500,000 for a circular, 6,000-seat auditorium and convention hall. Finally, as a bow to modern, motorized living, the new Center will have underground parking for 5,000 cars, and since the buildings will take up only 30% of the site, the entire project will be landscaped with tree-shaded plazas and malls, reflecting pools, fountains and sculpture...