Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atomic Energy Commission (1950-57), who upheld the AEC's 4-1 "no confidence" vote against Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1954, fought for Government development of atomic power plants, production of smaller nuclear weapons, cessation of hydrogen bomb tests, but last year urged the U.S. to resume underground tests to create a relatively "clean" neutron bomb as a "third-generation" weapon; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A leading Roman Catholic layman knighted twice by the church and father of eleven children, Murray was the son of a millionaire engineering magnate, held 200 electrical and welding patents...
Considering the repression and stagnation characteristic of the Dominican police state, few observers can feel surprise that one of the many groups seeking the death of the dictator finally succeeded. What is surprising--and even more unfortunate--is that the assassination was carried out, not by one of the underground political groups, but apparently by a family which has long feuded with the Trujillo dynasty. Thus the killers removed the man who has held the government together, without offering a regime or government to replace...
...traffic is subterranean, but the new plan offers a realistic promise of traffic-free isolation in at least one area. The scheme: transform the all but deserted Welfare Island into a development where, as Architect Victor Gruen says, "all that is disturbing in modern-day city life is placed underground...
...flight of helicopters buzzed overhead, the world's largest bank building officially opened for business last week in New York. Almost everything about the Chase Manhattan Bank's new 60-story glass and aluminum headquarters is the biggest: it has the biggest bank vault in the biggest underground banking area, the biggest automated check-sorting operation, the biggest air-conditioning unit. Even its 8,800 windows are oversized, "so people can look in and see bankers and so bankers can look...
...betray one's party than one's fellow man-underlies The Fox and the Camellias, though Silone gives it a new twist. The setting is a Swiss farm near Brissago, where the novel's hero, Daniele, maintains a secret outpost for the Italian anti-Fascist underground, as Silone himself did in the '30s and early '40s. The farm is really Daniele's first loyalty, and his teen-aged daughter Silvia is his chief joy. Amid the cycle of the seasons, Silone fashions a triptych of father, daughter and nature, linked in a timeless rural...