Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riot during last August's Democratic Convention. With less than five hours left before his plane's departure, Davis managed to obtain a Federal Court of Appeals ruling permitting him to leave the country. Three days later, the peace delegation, along with three cameramen from an underground moviemaking group, The Newsreel, landed in Hanoi...
...thousands of clandestine leaflets, Czechoslovakia's resistance leaders are instructing their countrymen on how to observe the first anniversary of the Soviet invasion. Since an estimated 75,000 Soviet troops are still inside their country, the underground leaders have prudently counseled against massive demonstrations. Instead, they intend to turn the observance into a dignified national "day of shame...
Hail of Stones. Despite the underground call for a show of only passive resistance, there is a danger that the anniversary may turn into something considerably more violent. Potentially, it is the most explosive time in Czechoslovakia since the invasion itself. After the Moscow-dictated dismissal of the liberal Alexander Dubček last April, the nation gradually sank into the depths of despair and sullenness. The factory workers who a year ago volunteered for weekend "Dubček shifts" without pay, in order to boost production, are today blatantly loafing on the job and pilfering supplies. The slowdown...
Thankfully, fiction is more entertaining than life. The Andromeda Strain tells of how a group of super-scientists (at least one of whom is a toned-down version of J. D. Watson) set to work in a secret, five-story, underground bacterial research center in Nevada--part of "Project Wildfire." Their object is to identify and neutralize a lethal virus brought back from the upper atmosphere by a Scoop satellite that has crashed in the middle of the Arizona desert. Since the enterprising virus multiplies at a giddy rate, they must, of course, do in the thing by the time...
Thus he has been canonized by the underground press and posterized by high-camp followers. Ginsberg has also come to be legitimized by a wide public (LIFE, Playboy, TV talk shows) and all but officially designated as a peculiar national treasure of sorts...