Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in his life, Kissinger descended into a 90-ft. silo and gazed at a 75,000-lb. Minuteman III, the newest and largest American ICBM (range: 7,000 miles). After watching a simulated firing in an underground command center, Kissinger emerged and remarked that the world of payloads, throw weight and delivery systems had been largely an "abstraction" to him up until now. Coming face to face with the real thing had clearly been a sobering experience for the onetime Harvard professor who made his reputation with a book entitled Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy...
...exhibit now under consideration represents something of a curiosity: a rip-off of a ripoff. It will be remembered that the original cartoon feature Fritz the Cat - largely the work of the animator Ralph Bakshi - so enraged Fritz's creator, the underground comic artist R. Crumb, that he disowned the whole movie. Crumb, a stringent satirist, had conjured up Fritz as a way to mock the poses of the pseudo hipster and to lay waste the giddy excess of the culture from which he sprang. Bakshi slicked Fritz up, cooled him out, and turned him into the perfect creature...
...coal will be one of the saving alternatives to oil as an energy source, and the easiest way to meet the nation's rising coal needs is to strip-mine. But strip mining - ripping off a top layer of earth to get at the coal underground - has done so much damage in the past that it is a prime target for environmentalists...
...House measure sets new fed eral standards for the "regrading and re-vegetating" of stripped land, and also for the preservation of water tables (removal of the coal can divert underground streams and deprive neighboring farmers and ranchers of precious water). The bill also provides funding for restoration of previously mined land...
...would "discriminate against energy values." National Coal Association President Carl Bagge calls the House bill a disaster, claiming that it virtually "prohibits" mining in many Western areas. Industry spokesmen argue that the committee bill could reduce coal production by as much as one-third. Not so, counter the environmentalists: underground mining of Western coal is feasible and could be profitable...