Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their history grows more fantastic. One story tells of a sly undergraduate who, dressed as a workman, avoided the winter snows by travelling to classes through the tunnels. During the 1969 occupation of University Hall, another rumor has it, Harvard administrators escaped invading protesters by fleeing through the underground passages. Once upon a time, the wrestling team jogged through the tunnels, sweating from the triple-digit temperatures, to lose weight before matches. And the stories live...
Except the workers. Thirteen men serve under Daniel L. Campell, superintendent of Maintainence Operators, repairing leaks, opening and closing valves, and maintaining the steam pipes that run through the tunnels. None of the men works in the tunnels full-time, although occassional maintainance projects require some to stay underground for up to eight hours...
Moses is hired by the manager of a gubernatorial campaign to discover who is trying to smear his man by linking him with a once notorious campus radical leader now thought to be living underground. The trail the detective pursues brings him into contact with chicano activists, former-radical lawyers, Mob hit men, old movement stars who are still in jail for their activities, ominous Government agents and, finally, big right-wing wealth...
...Rome, announced that there was no evidence that the Imam had ever been in the Italian capital. Throughout the Middle East, there were rumors that the Imam, who was born in the Iranian holy city of Qum, had secretly returned to his homeland to join the anti-Shah underground. Alternatively, there was a rumor he had been kidnaped by the Shah's secret police...
...grim, ultimate task in such disasters: bulldozing the ruins to prevent epidemic?even though there might still be survivors too deep to find, too weak to call out. Well diggers known as moqanis were flown in from Kerman and Yazd to repair the ancient qanats, the giant underground system of wells and canals around the Kavir desert that for centuries have brought water to Tabas and greened its pools, palms and citrus trees. After slithering 180 ft. down into the canals to repair connections, they reported nervously that "the earth is growling down there." Tabas' terrible night, it seemed, might...