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Midway through the "Gunbarrel" in Knox Cave, New York, I tried to pull myself forward a little bit. There wasn't enough room, and my hand stuck in a crevice beneath me. As I pulled back to get it loose, my helmet cracked hard against the rock ceiling. Now both my arms were stretched straight in front of me, my legs straight back. The only way to get moving again in that tight space was to push myself with my boot toes, lifting myself off the ground with my elbows, gaining an inch or two each time...
This was my third trip to a New York cave, but many of the others were beginners. I could hear them twisting through the Gunbarrel behind me, struggling even more than I had. The tube is just wide enough to squeeze into and is perfectly smooth, so you can't use the walls for leverage. There's a legend that some skinny greased marvel once slipped through in a record 23 seconds, but I was lucky to have made it in under ten minutes. My coveralls were ripped and splattered with mud; but then, that was all supposed...
...23rd child of an Archibald Patch, Pa. coal miner. Gibbons has long kept his gunbarrel eyes fixed on personal power. He armed himself with courses at the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, organized Chicago schoolteachers, then gravitated to St. Louis to stitch a handful of loose-knit locals into a Gibbons whole. When this was gathered into the Teamster fold, Hoffa and Gibbons formed an alliance under which Hoffa is the muscleman and Gibbons the strategist. "Gibbons," Jimmy once said in undisguised admiration, "there are some men in Detroit who dislike me-but those fellows back there in St. Louis...
...gunbarrel device, with a bore of not less than two inches or more than ten inches. Purpose: to fire a projectile of fissionable material into a plug of fissionable material at the end of the bore, thus creating a critical mass and atomic blast...
Golden Era. In an article calculated to raise the hackles on Republican necks, Professor Webb looked beyond the current farm and labor vote, and got the party in his sights down "the long gunbarrel of history." Historically, said Webb, "the debate swings around a principle. The party that originates the principle and establishes it, does so in a national crisis. As long as the principle being acted upon works, it is almost impossible to dislodge the party that discovered...