Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Butterflies. Underground, the beleaguered Protestants struggled to keep the faith alive. Carrying slats of wood, groups would assemble by night in quarries and grottoes, and fit their boards together to make a pulpit. Other pulpits were made that could be instantly transformed into ladders at the approach of the authorities. Most Huguenot houses had hiding places built into the walls for fugitives like the young shepherd, Pierre Laporte, whose nom de guerre was "Roland...
...were reduced to a remnant. But their struggle had crystallized public opinion against religious intolerance, and for 45 years (from 1715 to 1760) Calvinist Antoine Court labored to restore French Protestantism -organizing local and national synods, setting up a divinity school in Lausanne, Switzerland to supply pastors to the underground churches. Finally, two years before the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was forced to sign an edict of tolerance for Protestantism. The revolution-which in turn bitterly persecuted the Catholics-eventually turned that tolerance into equality...
Asked to estimate the price of an underground school, Standhardt found it would cost only about 10% more than a building above ground. Civil defense officials offered to make up the difference. Artesians had no objections: their houses seldom have basements, and the city (pop. 11,939) has no public buildings suitable for shelter. Artesia is perhaps more mindful of the nuclear age than most cities, being 40 miles from the missile pads of Roswell and 230 miles from Los Alamos...
...basketball court and a fallout filter. The two wells used for air conditioners can supply emergency drinking water. The lunch room will be stocked with a 14-day food supply, and cupboards throughout the 18-classroom building will contain 970 cots. Abo will also have a two-way radio, underground phone lines, radiation-measuring instruments, provisions for fire fighting, garbage disposal and a morgue...
...Artesia unduly apprehensive? Not at all, says Mrs. C. P. Bunch, president of the Board of Education. She calls the underground school "more a matter of insurance than fear," hopes eventually to build shelters for all of Artesia's 4,600 school children. "These shelters have an important psychological value," says Mrs. Bunch. "We must build up the will to resist. America's morale will go down if we feel helpless. Let's teach our children that we can protect ourselves and survive...