Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe approved of the statement with few qualifications; mail to the White House ran 100 to 1 in favor of the President in unprecedented quantities. Awakened to full understanding that the U.S. would go to war if all else failed, householders besieged their local civil defense headquarters, inquired about underground shelters; men volunleered for enlistment or recall with the reserves...
...largest sum-$93 million-will be spent to mark existing community shelters in public buildings, underground garages, subway systems and the like. By late 1962, 34 million shelter spaces will be marked out and ready. Another $58.8 million will go for stocking a minimum supply of water and wheat wafers, first-aid kits, and tools for debris removal. Another $10 million is earmarked for modifying existing shelters; by adding forced draft ventilators, many can be improved to take care of more people. To get civilians under cover in time, $10 million will be spent developing the acronymously named NEAR (National...
Faceless Army. Spies in a police state have one almost insuperable advantage over the foreigner: they are already there. At the new U.S. embassy now abuilding in Warsaw, sharp-eyed security men found that Polish technicians had thoughtfully installed 18 bugs, connected them to a single underground conduit deep in the concrete foundations. In any Iron Curtain country except Poland, foreigners must also apply to a government agency for servants and office hands-who invariably work primarily as espionage agents. "Repairmen" can hide bugs faster than they can be tracked down by security officers...
...Ghosts on the Roof," in which he accurately predicted a ruthless, imperialistic Russia about to launch an offensive to conquer the world. Chambers' concern with evil could also take other forms. In a fanciful and humorous article for LIFE, Chambers pictured the Devil as a sort of cosmic underground agent-an embodiment of evil in disguise...
...himself Jerry Patrick, the force practices parachute jumping, calls itself the nucleus of armed support for a Cuban liberal named Aureliano Sánchez Arango. Most significant, the U.S. was pointedly withholding promised support of Manuel Ray, the young reform-minded Cuban exile with the strongest claim to organizable underground strength inside Cuba...