Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their unceasing attempts to escape to freedom, East Berliners have often taken the underground route. But last week the world learned of the biggest, most elaborate tunnel yet built beneath the hated Wall. Through it. a record 59 refugees reached the West. The 413-ft. tunnel was dug in 18 weeks by two dozen German and foreign college students who began the job last May in a cellar in the working- class district of Wedding...
...Cuban exiles scattered around the hemisphere. Far from being paid and armed by the U.S., last week's Alpha 66 raiders were completely on their own. Supported by some 1,500 contributors, Alpha 66 counts among its activists a few members of the once powerful M.R.P. underground organization that was shattered by Castro's G-2 security cops after the Bay of Pigs; many of the Alphas are professional men; some are former members of Havana's Public Accountants' Association, which used to be one of the strongest of Cuba's professional organizations. They scrounge...
...syphilis are so various, said Dr. Pariser, that a physician may confuse syphilis with acne, chicken pox, measles, mononucleosis or cancer. He estimated that from 40% to 60% of syphilis victims pass through the primary and secondary stages without knowing what has hit them. Then the spirochete goes underground, to erupt at intervals over the years in new active phases. Finally, in about half of the untreated cases, it attacks the heart and aorta, the brain and spinal cord. If the victim does not die of heart disease, he may end his days as a lame, blind, insane, partially paralyzed...
...Also in dire need of repair: the area's intricate, ingenious system of underground conduits -called Qanats-which have been used for hundreds of years to distribute water from mountain springs to the arid plateaus...
...Bavarian forests near Munich, Producer-Director John Sturges has rebuilt Stalag 3, and his Great Escape shows promise of being the best P.O.W. picture since Stalag 17-closely following the bestselling personal-experience story written by Paul Brickhill. Underground, Tom, Dick and Harry are ingenious; they are rigged up with improvised cable cars, electric lights and pumping stations. But above ground the prison camp has an authenticity that is frightening, and visitors instinctively flinch under the guard towers high above masses of barbed wire...