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...floors and the basement have been designated the shelter area. After a warning of a possible nuclear attack over an interoffice alert system, all Hancock personnel and non-company tenants in the building would be directed to core shelters, which have already been tested by radiation experts. A zoo-cot hospital section and operating room have been marked off, and medical supplies are stockpiled close by (16 doctors and eight nurses are always available). Two existing company restaurants carry a daily food supply; to supplement that, Hancock has stockpiled 400 cases of Multi-Purpose Food (MPF), one can of which...
...Cot in the Corner. Epi-Hab began in 1949, when Dr. Risch, a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, joined the staff of the Los Angeles Veterans Administration Hospital. He set up a machine shop on the grounds, manned it with ten epileptics. In one corner Risch placed a cot. When a worker suffered a seizure, he was helped to the cot and cared for. When the seizure passed, he was encouraged to march right back to his machine. In 1956, with a small grant from the U.S. Government, Risch opened his first Epi-Hab plant in downtown...
...scratch." Meanwhile, give or take a few stars, the tired and hungry traveler driving into Ukiah, Calif., with his family after eight hours on the road, can derive immense comfort from the knowledge that the two-starred Ukiah Travelodge offers a suite for $15 a night, with "crib, $1 ; cot, $2; TV free. Pool. Pets. Café adjacent. Self-serv. laundry four blks. Ck-out. 1 p.m. Patio." And just down Route 101, the one-starred House of Garner specializes in smorgasbord, with a special child's plate...
...tiny screws into packages, punches out orders at a respectable hunt-and-peck speed on the typewriter, drives his own car to work. Murray Nemser, his backbone fused rigid by war injuries, does a full day's work estimating contract bids while stretched out on a mobile cot beside his desk. A one-armed man, using a special jig, performs a delicate soldering job. Women with arthritic-weakened wrists wind wires with the aid of an Abilities-designed machine that speeds up the job so effectively that other companies are buying it for regular workers. Other employees work...
Weddings' hero is a small-tirne commercial photographer (John Myhers) who lives in his store-front studio in the Village and shares his cot with his "model" (Viveca Lindfors). She keeps nagging him to marry her, he keeps dodging. Underneath the usual evasions lies, of course the usual fear of life, but he'll be damned if he's going to open that can of worms. ) they bicker, make up, get engaged take his mother (Chiarina Barile) to an old folks home, trail her all over town when she runs away, bicker, break up. The crisis comes...