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...week's end-New York will pay up to 50% of the cost of shelter building at schools and colleges, provide $15 million for shelters at state-run institutions. Although the program may cost $100 million or more, the state's taxpayers will not have to dig down for extra cash: the law merely unfreezes money that was originally set aside for new roads, and that became available for shelter use when Congress failed to provide sufficient matching funds. The legislation includes stiff penalties aimed at contractors who sell below-par shelter protection ($5,000 fines for corporations...
...said last week that he is giving serious consideration to a plan for building large fallout shelters in populous areas along the federal interstate highway routes now under construction. The plan, proposed by Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston B. Morton, would make use of the holes highway crews dig to gather fill; it would save money by utilizing the heavy earth-moving equipment already on the potential shelter sites...
...perhaps both a symptom and a cause of mankind's present retreat from the idea of the obsolescence of war in the nuclear age. It seems that both we and the Russians are indeed beginning to assume our survivability as nations after such a war-if only we dig well enough beforehand. This kind of mutual self-confidence may well help to bring on the war we seek to avoid...
...population is plagued by Allied air-raids and Nazi terrorism. Here Rossellini's cameras are most effective. Surveying the common misery they discover it in a simple heroism and solidarity. A brilliant sequence shows original films of an air-raid followed by shots of a resigned populace beginning to dig its way out of the rubble. Suddenly from behind a ruined wall Bardone appears, well-dressed, but detached and miserably alone--a more striking portrayal of him than any of the dialogue ever achieves...
Faster Thinking. Still, the Center recognizes and studies the limitations that immaturity puts on learning. According to Switzerland's Jean Piaget, top scholar on the subject, the toddler is an egocentric who understands things only in terms of what he does about them ("A hole is to dig"). A five-year-old cannot grasp the principle of the conservation of quantity; he thinks that a piece of clay becomes "bigger" when it is flattened. The idea of transitivity eludes seven-year-olds, who cannot understand the statement: "A is bigger than B, and B is bigger than C, means...