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...Survey has identified the crater as a "sinkhole." It may be the largest yet (as much as 425 ft. across and 150 ft. deep) in a growing number of such cave-ins that have pockmarked central and northern Alabama in recent years. Sinkholes often occur when the roofs of underground limestone caverns suddenly collapse. Government scientists are not yet sure what is causing the rash of sinkholes in Alabama (at least 1,000 in Shelby County alone in the past 15 years). But Hydrologist John G. Newton thinks that they may be the result of a natural-or man-induced...
...Nearly two years after he went underground, Black Radical H. Rap Brown surfaced in a 1971 Manhattan gunfight with police. Shot and arrested, he and three others were charged with the robbery of patrons of a West Side bar and the attempted murder of three policemen. Despite the five-lawyer defense team, which included William Kunstler, Brown won a limited right to act as his own co-counsel. In a rambling opening statement he told the jury, "Truth is the eye of the storm and I myself no more than a raindrop looking for a fertile place to fall...
With the force of a small earthquake, three atomic bombs will explode next month beneath the Colorado surface. Set off simultaneously by the Atomic Energy Commission, they will release a combined explosive force of 60 kilotons. The underground spectacular is part of an ambitious program of at least 140 subterranean nuclear explosions that are designed to release some of the 300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas far beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountain states. But the program faces heated opposition. Citizens, politicians and scientists all fear that the blasts will release not only natural gas but lethal radiation...
...refine the technique of nuclear drilling. As for radioactivity levels in the gas, the AEC says that improvements in bomb design will minimize the problem in future blasts. Those improvements would presumably be incorporated into both the Rio Blanco devices and Project Wagon Wheel, a five-bomb, 500-kiloton underground explosion scheduled...
...architect for the Library Comples, proposed a development late last year for the Charles River site that included a memorial museum, a library and archives, the Kennedy Institute of Politics, the Harvard Government Department, underground parking and a related facilities building containing condominium apartments and commercial space...