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...number of things-from a rigged-up basement in the ground covered by dirt to the kind of steel-and-concrete thing you could put up in your backyard." Cost for a system of fallout shelters would run upwards of $20 billion (priced singly, according to one CDA man, "at about the cost of a medium-priced...
Thousands of citizens (with the help of knowing contractors) had already constructed backyard shelters guaranteed to withstand anything short of Judgment Day itself. The CDA, which is doing one $75,000 research job on shelters, isn't sure yet what is really needed, but is certain that many a home-made job might well broil its occupants to a crisp or squeeze them like grapefruit...
...lead foil brassiere to protect "mammary projections" and a lead girdle (which would be valueless unless it were six inches thick) to protect the spleen. All were gently but firmly discouraged. So was at least one man who was peddling perfectly valid information-the inner four pages of the CDA's 10? official survival book. He was reselling the pages for a dollar...
...serious a threat to the nation is biological warfare? Last week, in a 30-page booklet entitled What You Should Know About Biological Warfare, the federal Civil Defense Administration gave an answer designed to take much of the mystery and Sunday-supplement terror out of the subject. CDA's main point: disease germs are valuable as a military weapon, and may be used in war, but no man-made pestilence is likely to sweep the whole...
...marines, who were heating their morning rations over small wood fires. There was only one link left with the past. In one corner of the lot, gutted and tireless, its once shiny hood and fenders burned a dull red, was the Buick. It still bore its diplomatic license plate: CDA 253. Evidently the Communists weren't able to start it, either...