Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombing of the oil facilities in the North, which the Pentagon claims was highly effective, has had little ascertainable effect on the North Vietnamese ability to move men and supplies. The oil tanks are being dispersed and put underground, and some Western observers in Hanoi say that the North's main problem is that supplies are pouring in so fast from Red China and the Soviet Union that bottlenecks are developing, particularly in the port of Haiphong. Inevitably, there are some shortages, as evidenced by the new slogan for the North Vietnamese militia: "Shoot down more U.S. aircraft with...
...begins to catch on, Negro groups are making an even greater push to eliminate distortions and omissions in history textbooks. Until recently, some popular texts depicted the plantation life of Negro slaves as a carefree round of play, song and dance but did not mention slave uprisings or the Underground Railroad to freedom. Researchers at Tufts University last month completed a study of 24 elementary school social studies books, found that many are "tinged with racism." A B'nai B'rith study of 24 high school social studies texts disclosed that half of them did not even mention...
Trains still run underground into Pennsylvania Station, but the station itself has disappeared, while up above, the steel skeleton for a new $75 million Madison Square Garden (third structure to bear the name), a 29-story hotel and office building is going up. On Madison Avenue, the 94th Street Armory, once home for the socialite Squadron A, is crumbling under the siege of wreckers to make way for an integrated junior high school; while at 74th Street, Architect Marcel Breuer's new Whitney Museum, with its massive cantilevers and moat, is readying for its September debut. Across Central Park...
...Holland on Sept. 17, 1944, and reviews the tragic failure of this bold plan to hasten the end of World War II. Walter Cronkite revisits the area where, as a war correspondent, he parachuted with the 101st Airborne Division, and also interviews the intelligence chief of the Dutch underground. Repeat...
...Manhattan's East Village Other, initiator of the Underground Press Syndicate. A 16-page tabloid published twice monthly, EVO boasts a circulation of 10,000 after just eight months on the streets. "We are in favor of evolution, not revolution," says Managing Editor Allan Katzman, 29, a poet with a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the City College of New York. "We hope to transform the middle class by internal and external stimuli, by means of media and LSD." Though EVO is obsessed with LSD, Katzman still finds generous space for an avant-garde international survey...