Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost: $9,500) was not built for such frivolity. The military uses are obvious. Blacked-out cities, whose warmth cannot be eliminated, will stand out conspicuously on Eva's screen. An underground factory will be betrayed by heat rising from...
...Vengeance. Paris had been liberated only two days when underground newspapers were shouting for Louis Renault's head, and three weeks later he surrendered on condition that he would not be jailed until indicted. He was taken to a prison infirmary, then transferred to a private nursing home. In four weeks he was dead...
...German painters denounced as "degenerate" by Hitler, there were only two choices if they were to continue as artists: get out of Germany or go underground. Painters Paul Klee, George Grosz, Josef Albers and Architect Walter Gropius managed to escape; one of the few who chose to remain and survived is Fritz Winter, today rated as Germany's leading abstract-expressionist. To celebrate Winter's 50th birthday, Munich's Günther Franke Gallery is staging a showing of 46 of his paintings, ranging from 1929 to the present. The Munich retrospective, and a current exhibition...
...thus eliminating "attrition" (crackups). Its launching site will be very cheap compared with the cost of a modern bomber base. Missiles can be dispersed widely, a few or one to each launching site. They can be hidden to a considerable extent, they are potentially mobile, they can be put underground. For the cost of a few B-52 bases, the U.S. can have several hundred sites, and the enemy would have to knock all of them out to be safe from retaliation...
Count de Gastyne, Marquis de St. Maur and Viscount de Montauriant, fought with the French underground in his teens, and in 1947 came to the U.S., where his dazzling piano-playing soon won him scholarship grants at the University of Portland and the Eastman School of Music. Between studies he took a flyer at salesmanship (encyclopedias), earned enough to finance a cross-country trip by bus. In 1952 he enlisted in the Air Force, which decided that it wanted him at the keyboard of a piano, not at the controls of a plane. At Sampson Air Force Base near Rochester...