Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shabby old convention hall was turned into a bastion, secure from ground, air, and even subterranean attack. All entrances were sealed on the Halsted Street side of the building. Owners of buildings near by were ordered to keep windows closed for the duration of the convention-a consider able inconvenience in a Chicago August. Policemen with guns, walkie-talkies and binoculars were posted atop the amphitheatre. Protected by barbed wire screens, National Guard jeeps looked as if they were heading for jungle combat...
...techniques. One method employs infra-red aerial photography. Since the infra-red film is sensitive to heat, geothermal areas are likely to show up lighter in the picture. Another method measures the earth's electrical conductivity, which increases with the presence of subsurface hot water. To tap the subterranean energy, engineers drill with standard oil rigs, going down as little as 600 ft. or as much as 8,000 ft., the depth of the world's deepest steam well at Salton Sea near Brawley, Calif...
...Trillion Cubic Feet. Although preliminary instrument checks at the site indicate that th| subterranean chimney is already filial with gas, several months will pass before scientists can determine how successful Operation
...spun inwards, so far, far inside. He brought it all back home to himself, back into the smoke rings of his mind. The wind? The sea? Call it the unconscious. "I'm ready for to fade into my own parade." A pipeline laid deep to private magic swirling ships, subterranean homesick blues, dreams. to 115, Desolation Row, flickering vision lights of Johanna, Memphis mobile mind traps and all those psychic lowlands where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes...
...finds chaos. That is no revelation. Neither is it his prophetic nightmare. There are all these facts, you see: Johnny in the basement, medicine, pavement, a man in a trenchcoat, parking meters, vandals and handles. They are real. They make sense. All right, put them together. Metallic, impenetrable chaos. Subterranean Homesick Blues. Don't string the facts from the clothes line pole of conventional conceptions, don't order them with pliers of cause and effect. Just put them together--and they'll scare you. His experiment suggests how easy it is to let out ragged wild, numb wild thoughts...