Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of "fancy and expensive" innovations were also proposed by Abramovitz, reported Adele Smith '63, president of RGA, such as rebuilding the driveway (presently located between Bertram and Eliot) and digging underground passages...
...inspection remained the key against Communist deception. Cuban exiles and other intelligence sources were desperately warning that not all the missile equipment was being put aboard ships for return to the Soviet Union. Instead, they claimed, much of it was being stored in a long-prepared system of underground arsenals in Cuba's mountain fastnesses. To be sure, many of these sources had an ax to grind; they were embittered by the prospect of Castro's being allowed to survive, with or without Soviet missiles. But they had been startlingly accurate in their warnings of the missile buildup...
...Russia were exploding small rocket-borne nuclear weapons at high altitudes, the Russians dropped hints that they might accept a system of unmanned seismographic inspection posts inside Russia. In them, a world body would install tamper-proof boxes containing recording apparatus that would be regularly studied for signs of underground nuclear blasts...
...proposal, jointly forwarded by Harvard University's chief seismologist and by a Harvard government student, had some weird aspects. It would require the U.S. and Russia to deposit $5 billion apiece with the World Bank, as a sort of good faith deposit against discovery of an illegal underground blast within their boundaries. The evidence would come from many unmanned seismic recorders in sealed boxes scattered throughout the two countries. On every Wednesday (why this must be the day is not explained), each nation would fly the recorders to a neutral team on its frontier. Eventually, the records would...
...this year, Poet Evgeny Evtushenko (TIME cover, April 13), most popular spokesman of Russia's restive younger generation, has recited for trusted friends an eloquent, venomous attack on Stalinism that he considered too hot to publish. For a while, the poem circulated through Russia's mysterious poetic underground, until last week it was printed in full by the party newspaper Pravda. For whatever purpose, the party evidently wanted to suggest that Stalinism still exists, and that Khrushchev is its enemy...