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...cliffs, the mine contains a complex, multilevel network of some 200 shafts and galleries. Although only a small portion has been excavated so far by Rothenberg's team, which included ten West German coal miners, the maze apparently reaches hundreds of yards into the mountain. Perhaps 1,000 workmen-or slaves-toiled inside the tunnels, most of which were no more than 2 ft. wide and 4 ft. high. The underground network included ventilation tubes and shafts to bring fresh air into the galleries, support pillars that prevented collapses and even steps and handholds for climbing from one level...
...Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, reserved for the rare event, had been walled up for a quarter of a century. Just before midnight on Christmas Eve, Pope Paul VI stood before it and tapped it three times with a silver hammer. With that, workmen lowered the massive door on pulleys, chunks of broken masonry fell, and prelates washed the threshold and doorposts. After a prayer, Paul walked through the doorway into St. Peter's as cardinals, bishops, nuns, priests and lay people streamed in behind him. The Holy Year of 1975, with its theme of "renewal...
...flat banks of the Moscow River three miles from Red Square, workmen are excavating the site for a Soviet version of Manhattan's towering World Trade Center. Scheduled for partial completion in 1978, the $110 million complex, which is largely financed with U.S. money, will contain offices for 1,200 employees, plus 625 apartments, 600 hotel rooms, restaurants, a swimming pool, convention hall and shopping mall. All are supposed to provide aid and comfort to American and other foreign businessmen visiting or living in Moscow while doing business with the Soviets...
After the funeral in Hyde Park, N.Y., when the crowd had drifted away and workmen were shoveling dirt onto the coffin, Eleanor Roosevelt turned around and walked back alone toward the grave of her husband. A distance from it, she stopped. For a while she stood there, watching from afar, saying nothing. Then she walked away...
...youngsters can also learn the art of boatbuilding while they watch skilled workmen construct a full-size craft...