Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report, signed by outgoing AEC Chief John McCone and the three commissioners who will remain under the new Administration, argued that further testing by either side would achieve "major advances in weapons design.'' Behind their wall of secrecy the Soviets could test clandestinely either underground or in outer space. "The military advantages to be gained from clandestine nuclear testing are great." said the report. "The probabilities of detecting and identifying clandes tine tests are very small." The Neutron Bomb. Pentagon worriers go a step farther than AEC. They argue that the U.S. cannot afford to remain stagnant...
Swift Spadework. Forest Lawn ran into homeowner opposition in both places but quelled it by a slick trick. Since "six or more bodies being buried in any one place constitute a cemetery" under California law. Forest Lawn shoved the bodies of six indigents underground overnight when it won preliminary cemetery permits in both towns. The residents thus had no chance to appeal. To head off Covina opposition, Forest Lawn bought the land last May un der an individual's name, filed the deed in its name last November, the same day that it filed rezoning requests with...
...addition to studying Russian affairs, MacDonald has spent considerable time working for a Russian underground resistance group called the NTS, which in Russian stands for the "People's Labor Union." He originally received the idea for the strike from a NTS pamphlet...
Cole does not think that space-voyaging models of macrolife could be built at present with any hope of success. Humbler models should come first-to give practice. One useful transitional form, he believes, might be an underground missile base that could be sealed off for years. Self-contained underwater bases would provide useful experience, too, especially if they could cruise around like giant nuclear submarines. Perhaps the most practical training unit would be an underground city stocked with enough people, supplies and equipment to survive a nuclear war and recolonize the earth's devastated surface after postwar radioactivity...
...realistic reporter. Says Duc: "I try not to make things up." He thinks of life as a campaign in which he has won certain medals, all of which he insists on explaining. Duc has been decorated for being in and out of Communism (like Author Vailland), in the French underground, and on and off heroin. Women call for special citations. The Hemingway heroine derives from the spectral ladies of Poe. The sleeping bag is a kind of tomb. In a catatonic trance, Lucie does Duc's bidding. "Am I to undress? That's what I came...