Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least likely candidates imaginable for the job of rescuing the sinking British shipbuilding industry. Both men were then Zionists fighting British forces in Palestine-the Russian-born Brener as skipper of a blockade-busting refugee ship, the Polish-born Meridor as deputy commander of the bomb-wielding Irgun underground and sometime inmate of British prison camps in Kenya and Eritrea. But last week, Brener and Meridor's little-known Haifa-based firm, Maritime Fruit Carriers, completed placement of roughly $700 million in orders and options for 26 ships-the largest transaction from a single customer in British history...
...library will be located between Lamont and Houghton Libraries and the former President's house at 17 Quincy Street. It will house collections now contained in Houghton, Widener and Lamont Libraries, and will be connected by underground passageways to all three libraries...
...three-level library will be completely underground except for the top nine feet of its upper level, and a surrounding mound will conceal the above ground portion...
...three-level library will be completely underground except for a nine-foot high portion of its upper level. Its aboveground portion will be shielded by a grassy surrounding mound...
...church-going Methodist, began heretic hunting as a leader in the FREE COG (Free Our Children from the Children of God) movement, a parents' vigilante group organized to reclaim offspring who joined that authoritarian fundamentalist sect (TIME, Jan. 24, 1972). Now Pat rick claims to have an underground network of deprogrammers throughout the U.S. They have recovered, he says, some 600 youths from 61 different fundamentalist, pentecostal or Oriental religious sects during the past two years. "Team members" of the underground network say that Patrick charges no fee for his services except what is necessary for travel and other...