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...have had the wise virgins give up their oil and their places with the bridegroom to the foolish ones? Personally, I'm going to let in at least enough people for a table of bridge. Can you imagine two weeks underground with nothing to do but listen to Conelrad...
...national civil-defense center in Colorado Springs gives the signal. The present Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization warning program comes nowhere near meeting this "minimum requirement." Many people in U.S. cities do not even hear civil-defense sirens, and very few pay any attention to them. The Conelrad radio-alert plan for using the 640 and 1240 frequencies to broadcast civil-defense information is inadequate because reception in some areas of the U.S. is weak, and because it takes broadcasting stations too long to switch over to the special emergency frequencies...
...Civil Defense radio program is known as "Conelrad" (for Control of Electromagnetic Radiation). It will go into effect the instant hostile aircraft are detected approaching the U.S. All TV and FM transmitters will go off the air. All AM transmitters will either be silenced or will switch their frequencies to 640 and 1240 on the dial of any standard receiver. This technical jugglery is necessary in order to prevent enemy pilots from getting a "fix" on a normal radio beam and riding down its path to drop bombs on a target city...