Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French workers, they have all moved out. Left behind is some $750 million worth of military infrastructure, which constitutes a windfall for France. It includes such unmovable assets as 46 new air fields, 17 Polaris depots, 1,200 miles of pipeline, 13 air navigational aid stations, ten underground cable and radio systems, nine naval base installations and three underground war headquarters. There were no tears or emotion as SHAPE moved out last week-except, possibly, among the military's cost accounting experts...
...Peyton Place." Yet, unlike many Puerto Rican men, Sanchez could not bring himself to conduct a covert affair. It was, he explained, "a problem of conscience. People say, 'You ought to hide the car.' But if it's something worthwhile and honest, how can you go underground? I felt I owed it to myself and to her and to everyone...
...most principals expect to see in their high school newspaper. In these cases, the authorities were in no position to object, since the articles appeared in off-campus publications. Catching the rebellious fervor of their college elders, high school students are turning out a rash of unsupervised and unauthorized "underground" newspapers to express what they claim are their real convictions...
Ronnie Raygun. The underground papers flail away at any handy target. The Worrier was started by students of Los Angeles' University High after the official school paper, the Warrior, called anti-Viet Nam protesters "cowards." While the Worrier assails the war, as do many other underground papers, it seems equally alarmed over school rules against short dresses and long hair. There is something wrong with teachers, argues the Worrier, who are "more interested in their students' legs than in their minds." Belligerently political, the Worrier calls California Governor Ronaid Reagan's administration "the Ronnie Raygun Show...
Obscenities & Attacks. Unfettered by faculty advisers, a few underground papers sometimes contain childish obscenities and sophomoric attacks on school officials. Principals and teachers tend to deplore the underground journals, frequently ban them from school grounds or suspend the editors. Sometimes, however, the journalistic excellence of the papers wins out. In Needham, Mass., for example, after students at the town's high school founded the Razir, it quickly proved so worthy that officials let it circulate freely on campus. Coming up from underground, the paper is now sponsored by the city's Interfaith Youth Council, has a local Congregational...