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...practically none-"would save tens of millions of human lives," said Chairman Holifield. If every American family built its own basement shelter, added OCDM, atom deaths would be cut by 12 million and injuries by another 12 million. (OCDM is now distributing 50 million books showing how to construct a do-it-yourself shelter for $175.) Furthermore, said Military Evaluations Chief Walter E. Strope of the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, the Government could save a high percentage of U.S. citizens from blast and fallout by spending $5 billion to $20 billion on federal shelters...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Lee J. Cobb in a play, by Loring Mandel, about a scientist's effort to construct an electronic replica of the human brain...
...subtle process in mind. Pointing to the gutted cities of the Continent as testimony to the folly of unrestrained nationalism, they demanded political unification. Sparkplugged by France's Jean Monnet, the intense, brilliant economist who heads the Action Committee for a United States of Europe, they planned to construct united Europe through a series of economic, political and military bodies, each of which would possess supranational powers in a limited field...
...historians arrive at a causal Zeitgeist indirectly and sometimes counter to their own intentions. But besides a hint that invoking a time-spirit becomes almost a necessity for the cultural historian, Bourne neglects a chance to discuss more thoroughly the validity of the Zeitgeist as a unifying historical construct...
Adams House will construct a small auxiliary dining room for small student organizations, language tables, special dinners, and students who may wish to eat in more intimate surroundings, according to Andrew G. Jameson, Allston Burr Senior Tutor...