Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, seconds after its engines spouted orange flame, a Minuteman rose out of the inferno of its underground "silo" at Cape Canaveral, passed through the preceding smoke ring caused by the shock waves of its blast, and roared out into the South Atlantic on a test run that was considered perfect...
...missiles around the U.S. so that no enemy could zero in on them. But it turned out that the rail-riding Minuteman would increase costs by 60%; and last fortnight, after spending $108 million on the project, the Defense Department canceled the railroad scheme, decided to tuck all Minutemen underground...
...seismologists were well prepared; they had been told the instant when Gnome would explode. Still, the detection of so small a bomb at so great a distance without special instruments will surely revive the controversy between scientists who believe that clandestine underground tests can be detected and those who think that there is no use trying...
...days. Up to 30,000 crack Indian troops were deployed on Goa's forest-guarded border. Indian jet fighters screamed over the heart of Goa, and its only aircraft carrier cruised off the Goanese port of Marmagoa, Asia's finest harbor. Said a government statement: "Nationalists and underground circles in Goa are openly jubilant, waiting to welcome the Indian army...
Touched off when static electricity ignited gas escaping from a blown valve at a well called GT2, the Gassi Touil fire would, if it went unchecked, burn for the next century, wasting forever one of the largest underground reservoirs of natural gas (an estimated 7 trillion cu. ft.) yet tapped by man. To avert this economic tragedy, the field's owners-a combine consisting of two French companies, called COPEFA and OMNIREX, and the U.S.'s Phillips Petroleum Co.-have called in daredevil Texan Paul Adair, 46, president of Houston's Red Adair Oil Well Fires & Blowouts...