Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grief going underground? People want briefer funeral services, says Dr. Quentin Hand, an ordained Methodist who teaches at the theological school of Georgia's Emory University. "No one wants a eulogy any more-they often ask me not to even mention Mother or Father." Even those much scolded death-denyers, the undertakers, seem to sense that something is missing. Dean Robert Lehr of the Gupton Jones College of Mortuary Science in Dallas says that whereas students used to study only embalming, they now go in heavily for "grief psychology and grief counseling." Explains Lehr: "There are only 16 quarter...
...Special Forces Captain Harold M. Moore radioed for help. Soon flare ships were splashing naked light over enemy positions as the Reds' recoilless rifles slammed round after round through the camp's longhouses. The 2,300-odd montagnard women and children living at Plei Me disappeared underground for a week-long hibernation. All, that is, but the older boys-twelve years and more-who grabbed carbines nearly as tall as themselves, strapped grenades to their frail waists, and ran to the rifle pits...
...will involve students and young workers, and be an important source of allies for the working class. Radical youth movements of this sort are found in every major country in the world except South Africa, Spain, Portugal, and other fascist countries. In these countries, the youth movements are underground. In our country, the movement is in its infancy...
...Russian literary underground runs deep. Tertz has made his mark as a bitter, bedrock enemy of Communism, while Sinyavsky merely mocks its Stalinist aspects. To Kremlinologists from Bonn to Washington, this suggested that Sinyavsky might be one of those Russian writers who produce critical work that is acceptable for open publication, but whose best efforts are for the "drawer"-they cannot be published anywhere but in the West. Thus a foreigner reading a noted critic's articles in Literaturnaya Gazeta may get a wholly false impression of his talents. Of one bottom-drawer writer, a Soviet official recently exclaimed...
...weigh rocks in the light gravity. Westinghouse is spending $4,800,000 to make tiny TV cameras to transmit live pictures of exploration back to earth. To shelter the moon explorers, Lockheed is planning surface living quarters in sausage-shaped tanks, and General Electric is working on an extensive underground base that would be blasted out of the moon's depths...