Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prevent that, the Soviets made what seemed to be a few concessions. They agreed to sign a treaty banning all easily detectable blasts in the atmosphere, in space, in the sea, and underground tests of more than 19 kilotons-about the size of the bomb that fell on Hiroshima. In return for that, they demanded that both sides declare a "voluntary" ban on smaller, underground nuclear explosions, which are virtually undetectable without inspection. Meanwhile, said the Soviets, they would heed a U.S. call to work jointly toward better detection methods. To the U.S., the Soviet carrot looked tasty. Russia seemed...
...Nikita Khrushchev might want the Geneva talks to continue unsuccessfully forever. The U.S. has a much bigger and better variety of nuclear warheads than the Soviets. The Soviets can only close that gap by continuing with secret tests while U.S. tests stand suspended. Central Russia has plenty of underground salt mines where nuclear explosions would make hardly a quiver on a far-off seismograph. And at least one top U.S. official says that the West has lately recorded some "pretty big bangs" inside the U.S.S.R.-although whether they were of nuclear nature remains open to question...
Many of the black leaders, including Nelson Mandela, 42, head of the underground movement, managed to escape the police pickup vans. But as the police had hoped, the leaders were forced into such deep concealment that they lost touch with their black following. Thus, when the strike deadline arrived, confused native office boys, waiters and messengers went to their jobs on schedule almost everywhere. One-third of Johannesburg's black work force stayed at home the first day, halting grocers' deliveries and causing white restaurant managers to suffer the indignity of washing their own dishes; but by next...
...Guaranty Bank Building in 1959 when Murdock smelled the possibility of a new killing in the old downtown section of Phoenix, where values had been falling. Buying up most of a block, he spent $5,500,000 on two more office buildings, is now tunneling a $1,750,000 underground garage for 500 cars...
During that time, one of those mysterious underground (or as Miller would put it, "Chthonian") movements has been rumbling about the name and personality of Henry Miller, and a committee-sized panel of names has been assembled by the publishers to "welcome Miller among the elect." The encomiums range in warmth and weight from T. S. Eliot to Kenneth Patchen. He is not only the Buddha of the beatniks, but Lawrence Durrell asserts that ''American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what he has done." He has been called, or called himself a "saint." "Caliban...