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...Bundy brought the question of expansion to the Faculty floor and then appointed a committee to make further studies, the President, without preliminaries, simply selected a committee to discuss the use of final examinations. And while the Ford committee on admissions reported to the Faculty, the committee on fallout shelters made its report to the President...
troops. SANE opposes all fallout shelter programs, contends that President Kennedy plans to resume tests not for military but for "political-psychological reasons." It urges Kennedy to hold off on testing until he is absolutely certain that the Soviet Union will not sign a test-ban treaty-as if the U.S.S.R.'s refusal were not already perfectly plain. SANE's general outlook is reflected by kindly Dr. Benjamin Spock...
Like Communists everywhere, those in Cuba may not know how to run an economy or make the public happy, but they know how to hold control. A likelier possibility is a fallout among the factions who govern, and it is a U.S. worry that when it suits the Communists, Castro might be found murdered with a U.S. pistol lying near by. The same thought must trouble Castro, for he no longer moves around freely, unattended. Already assassination attempts have been reported against Brother Raul...
...committee's preliminary report, recommending a modest fallout shelter program at Harvard, gave the Administration "what we wanted," Pusey noted. But federal, state, and local civil defense plans are so indefinite, he explained, that a final report and a continuing Faculty civil defense committee would not be useful "at this stage of the game...
Pusey acknowledged that Harvard took a first step toward involvement with the federal civil defense program in allowing a survey of the University's fallout shelter capabilities by Lockwood-Greene, a Boston engineering firm under contract to the Army Corps of Engineers...