Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reported on the progress of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Plowshare, exploring peaceful applications of nuclear explosions. He told of a Plowshare test in Nevada last summer in which a thermonuclear device with a power of 100 kilotons (equivalent to 100,000 tons of TNT) was exploded underground, creating in a few seconds a crater 1,200 ft. wide and 320 ft. deep. Such explosions, he said, could be used to make harbors and canals, remove earth and rock covering mineral deposits. Nuclear explosions, said Teller, have "the potentiality of becoming the first really important and thoroughly economic...
...When an underground gas main springs a leak, the break may not be found before enough gas has escaped to explode with devastating force. All over the U.S., gas companies are constantly on the alert for any gadget capable of pinpointing a small leak before it balloons into a big blowup...
...reputation of an underground author is a fragile thing. For example, it had been assumed for years that Henry Miller was unprintable but highly readable. Then Grove Press, merely by publishing his two Tropics, proved that Miller is unreadable but highly printable. A reading of Naked Lunch, the grotesque diary of Burroughs' years as an addict, suggests that no such drastic deflation will occur with him. For what it is worth. Burroughs will remain grand dragon of the YADs, by acclamation and by forfeit (he denies, of course, having anything in common with his beatnik vassals, but this...
...conditions (TIME, Oct. 19). Moscow denied the whole thing, but according to new details trickling to the West, party officials were stunned by the outbreak, not only because of the sudden violence, but because the rioters revealed sophisticated political attitudes that made Moscow suspect the existence of an organized underground. Scores of youths tore up their party cards in public, others shouted such slogans as "Back to Lenin" and "Down with the Deceiver." Even the local army garrison of Russians sympathized with the rioters and refused to fire into the protesting crowd. The soldiers who did were central Asian Uzbeks...
...Library was designed by hitectural firm of Hugh Stubbins sociates, the Cambridge designers lanned the Loeb Drama Center. The building will have six levels above ground and two below, with underground storage stacks extending beyond the vertical wall limits of the central library...