Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most F.L.N. chiefs, he is in poor health from years in the underground, and last week was still convalescing from a recent gall bladder operation. His top assistants are also "moderates": burly, talented Lawyer Ahmed Boumendjel, 53. whose brother "committed suicide" while in the hands of French paratroops, but who is himself, nevertheless, a devotee of French culture, with a French wife and a passion for Paris; and Left-Winger Saad Dahlab, 38, a former merchant and a member of one of Algeria's wealthiest Moslem families...
...likely that U.S. money and equipment will be going to any invaders from now on (U.S. troops have also been ruled out, unless Castro provokes their use). This means that the effort will probably be directed toward men already inside Cuba, mainly Manolo Ray's M.R.P. underground, most of whose agents, Ray insists, are still in business...
...Personal Underground. The Xavier Theater (700 seats) in lower Manhattan is one of two headquarters of a remarkable organization-the Xavier Symphony Society. The society's other headquarters: a Broadway hotel room from which Conductor Vincent La Selva dispatches telephoned entreaties to a kind of personal underground consisting of about 300 musicians. From this list he recruits the orchestra he needs for any of the Xavier Society's free concerts or opera productions. Since the musicians all play for the fun of it, La Selva is never quite sure how much of his orchestra will turn...
...takes place in the kanaly, the filthy, fetid sewers that coursed like petrified entrails through German-occupied Warsaw. It is September 1944, the final days of the Uprising, and the ragged remnants of a guerrilla company-waging a fruitless small-arms fight against Nazi tanks-are ordered to retreat underground. There, in sewage, they panic, drown, go mad, get lost, commit suicide and make love...
...Reporting to the stockholders of the great diamond cartel, De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., Chairman Harry Oppenheimer, 52, professed unshaken confidence in South Africa's future, at least economically: "Political upheavals . . . will not affect the basic wealth of the country, which is underground." De Beers' 1960 sales, said Oppenheimer, were down $4.5 million, to $250 million, but its diamond sales in 1961's first quarter hit a new record. Another reason for Oppenheimer's optimism: De Beers is about to begin manufacture of a synthetic diamond that he hopes will cut deeply into...