Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lighting the Darkness. To satisfy critics, the Administration outlined plans for new underground tests and threw in some late-arriving endorsements from supporters, the most renowned of whom was Dr. Albert Schweitzer, writing from Lambarene in Gabon "A ray of light appears in the darkness," said he. "This is one of the greatest events in the history of the world...
Blue Light. In their underground prison Fellin and Throne crawled in the darkness, shivered with cold, kept trying to rouse an answer from Bova in vain...
...trapped miners, along with more than 200 newsmen, gathered around in agonized vigil, the rescue team's drill bit deeper toward Fellin and Throne. With every turn of that drill the danger increased that the rescue efforts would cave in what remained of the roof of that underground, pick-hewn grotto in which Fellin, Throne and, surely not too many feet away, Lou Bova, had been trapped...
Finally, delicately, near the end of the eleventh day, the drill bit nuzzled through the underground prison's rooftop. Now the diameter of the rescue shaft had to be widened to 18 in. Then on the 14th day, down through that shaft came two pairs of coveralls, to which parachute harnesses had been sewed. Fellin and Throne wordlessly put on the costumes, smeared each other with grease that had also been lowered to them. Throne went first, attaching his harness to a line from a hoist on the surface. A few minutes later Dave Fellin surfaced, bearded, grizzly...
...South Africa's 1955 Best Young Painter award for his Figures in Black and White, designed sets and costumes for King Kong, the famed South African musical. To Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's regime, he was a key suspect in the clandestine operations of the anti-apartheid underground. Last month police descended on the artist's swank home in the Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia, arrested Goldreich, his wife Hazel, four other white men, and a dozen nonwhites...