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Some cautious householders were already prepared with custom-built shelters. In West Los Angeles, Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard F. Libby proudly displayed his "poor man's shelter." Dug out of a hillside, it is protected with railroad ties and bags of dirt, is adequate for a 48-hour stay, cost all of $30. In Malibu, Missile Scientist and Electronics Manufacturer Bernard Benson, his wife and seven children had a $15,000 shelter built to withstand any bomb damage but a direct hit. Along with food and water, Benson has stocked his hideout with beer and a 1925 edition...
...fashioned custom of sending flowers to funerals, increasingly supplanted by a terse "Please Omit Flowers" in a death notice, is something worth preserving, thinks the Rev. W. Carter Merbreier, 34, of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. In this month's pastoral letter to his flock, he pleaded eloquently for flowers-at his own funeral, in any case...
...even as the tragedy was inscribed in Safety Council record books, there was increasing protest against the holiday custom. For one thing, the statistics were deceiving. It was true enough that 509 men, women and children had died on the road (491 were killed to"set the old record on the same weekend in 1950), but in post-mortem estimates, the Council could only make wild guesses at how many Americans were driving on the fatal holiday. Though the U.S. boasts 25 million more cars than it did in 1950, no one could be sure what part of the mobile...
Hollywood has hung out a sign: VACANCY. The old local custom of film making has all but disappeared, and a swarm of travelers in MarcoPolaroid sunglasses have gone off to wander the earth seeking low overhead and finding high adventure. Both U.S. and European companies are working on location everywhere from the Middle East to the Greater Antilles. If the final results may often seem dull as Hoboken on the screen, there is plenty of color in the making of the films. Current examples...
Each toss sent a fruit salad of custom creations arcing past the chandelier in his exclusive salon. A mere 60 women had managed to squeeze into the maelstrom, along with a handful of men. But as hats fell like peonies from heaven, ladies grabbed and shrieked. Five stalwart matrons, operating as "The Syndicate," reached for anything that sailed by, however conservative...