Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...load of cocaine left in the ground by dealers near an old launching pad near Cape Canaveral (foiled by a flash flood); and stunt car driver for a shoestring film that ran out of money. His heritage was Greek, and he knew all about fencing things in underground Daytona, and who burned down what restaurant for what insurance money...
...deepening bitterness is complemented by a growing hope. To the traditional image of Somoza as a fat, lying thief a new demension has been added--that of a coward. The dictator is now mocked for living in an underground redoubt, surrounded by bodyguards, for being afraid to appear in public. One young woman claims that he is acutally dead and that the country is being directed by a mummy...
...Sandinistas themselves probably number about several hundred, although they are completely underground and there is no certain way to gauge their strength. They reveal themselves from time to time in unexpected ways: a worker who makes deliveries between Managua and Leon says he picked up a Sandinista who was hitchhiking to El Salvador to buy arms, and people in Managua are said to run after automobiles that quickly strew the Front's literature in the darkened streets...
...Government is pressing ahead on several other research fronts. Oil from shale in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah could supply U.S. needs well into the next century. But processing costs could reach $16 per bbl., well above the current world price of $11. Still, a promising recovery technique is underground processing; fires are set beneath the surface, sweating the oil from the shale so that it can be pumped out. ERDA wants $7.7 million for research into this technique in fiscal '76, up 108% from this year...
...crowd up and out to Sullivan Square. Determined now to find Oak Grove with or without the Orange Line. An old woman asks directions. (Sorry, lady, I'm just in from Harvard Square myself.) A young man asks directions; he's all confused. North station never used to e underground. A smile and a shrug and then an older man comes up and asks directions. This is getting ridiculous but an educated guess provides him with an answer that he's satisfied with...