Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underground command post at Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha last week, a team of 300 Air Force, Navy, Army and Marine Corps officers worked away in rare interservice harmony -putting together a book. The officers were the members of the Defense Department's new Strategic Target Planning Group, and their book was a bulky, top-secret volume containing data on all important Soviet targets and detailed plans for hitting them in case of all-out nuclear...
...Social Democratic Party congress in Hannover, Brandt said: "It is true. I have been called Willy Brandt for 'only' the past 28 years." He had adopted the name at 19, when he fled his native town of Lübeck to work with the anti-Nazi underground in Norway. When he returned to Germany in 1945, "little more than the memory of a not entirely easy childhood bound me to the name of my birth and the name of my then unmarried mother." He continued to call himself Willy Brandt because "I wanted expressly to keep the name...
This was no work for amateurs or bunglers. To gain access to the heavily shielded core vessel, high-density concrete slabs first had to be lifted by remotely controlled cranes, exposing the underground room that houses the reactor and its maze of pipes and pumps. The cell was then flooded with 20 ft. of water to protect the technicians from radiation while they lowered specially designed long-handled tools into a flanged opening, 2⅛ in. in diameter, at the top of the vessel. Then, cutting torches and reamers, operated by delicate levers, rounded out the irregular-shaped holes...
...plans provide underground parking for half of the units, and, if an attendant were provided, the facility could accommodate almost ninety per cent, Payette said. The parking lot, along with a swimming pool on the roof and patios for the duplex units, contribute to the high cost--tentatively budgeted at considerably over a million dollars, with $200,000 for the garage...
...Continent to expand foreign coverage, "Looking All the Time." "Actually," said one Thomson employee last week, "the only conservative thing about Thom son is his money." Thomson encourages this view. He tells risque stories at stuffy editorial conferences, invites everyone to call him Roy, and rides the London underground more often than his blue Cadillac or Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. Thom son's editors have full rein: "I've got people with a helluva lot more editorial ability than I've got, and I'd be doing them and myself a disservice to inject myself into...