Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pushkin. Lermontov and. often. Zhenya Evtushenko. One good reason for poetry's popularity: scraps of "noiseless verse," as Russian writers call work that is too avant-garde or radical for publication, can easily be mimeographed and surreptitiously distributed from one group of youths to another. Though several underground poetry sheets have drawn official condemnation, not a single editor has lost his head...
...Brazilian President carried his message to New York and Omaha, where he visited the underground headquarters of the nuclear-armed U.S. Strategic Air Command, then he headed for home by way of Chicago and Mexico, taking with him a promise that President Kennedy will repay his visit with a trip to Brazil sometime this summer...
...route worked perfectly. But the Vopos spotted a group trying to flee, tossed tear-gas bombs down the manhole, and reportedly wired all East-West sewers with burglar alarms and microphones. Abruptly, the Travel Bureau was put out of business. Not until last week, when disclosure of the abandoned underground railway no longer mattered, was its existence revealed. By then, the bureau's 50 voluntary agents were back at more conventional studies, reunited in the West with the 600 lucky clients who had successfully completed the Travel Bureau's exclusive tours...
Speakers of Garbage. Singling out Aníbal Escalante, 53, third-ranking Cuban Red after Party Boss Blas Roca and Strategist Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, Castro launched a violent attack. Escalante and other party men like him were working to undermine the revolution by setting up underground cells to seize control of all revolutionary institutions. Already the old guerrilla fighters were being shunted aside by party functionaries. "Did they think they won the revolution in a raffle?" cried Castro. The "boastfulness" of the old Communist militants and the belief that those who do not belong to them...
...with the lox right down to the countdown, but this time there was nothing we could worry about for the last two days before the flight. You preload, and that's the end of it." Titan II, like the much smaller, solid-fuel Minuteman, will be placed in underground silos covered with a thick lid to resist attack. After it gets the command to go into action, it can be fired in a few minutes, perhaps a few seconds. But since it is thin walled (its liquid-fuel system enables it to use its weight elsewhere), it needs special...