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...made a member of the board. In the spring of 1961, Carlino was informed that Lancer was going to start making shelters. By his own admission, he realized that he might have a conflict-of-interest problem because "the state might ultimately be involved in some legislation involving home fallout shelters." Carlino said he telephoned Lancer to announce his intention to resign from the board. But the press of political business had prevented him from writing a letter of resignation until after the state shelter bill was passed...
Leonard M. Chazen, Yale '63, collaborated with Christopher B. Cerf '63 on "John Foster Dulles," 'Fallout Filly", and "I'm Losing Irv to the Ready Reserve." The latter two songs have been acclaimed by disk jockeys in Boston and New York as perhaps the best of the "Lampoon's songs...
...Fallout Filly" was so popular that after its release on a long-playing "Vanitus" record entitled "The Harvard Lampoon Tabernacle Choir Sings at Leningrad Stadium", it was again released as a 45 r.p.m. recording...
...Gruen's approach to the book also fails to realize that it has been made available to meet a present need. As he so wittily points out, the effects of extended exposure to long-lived isotopes and to delayed fallout are not yet known in great detail. Mr. Gruen might have grounds for criticism in the fact that the latest facts about these effects are not published in Fallout Protection. But on the basis of most of our knowledge, the book makes the judgement that delayed fallout is not so serious a problem as the immediate radioactivity after a blast...
...nature of radiation damage, there is no 'safe' dose for either exposure or absorption and hence, history will probably show a similar pattern in the estimation of fallout radiation. Perhaps a better approach by Mr. Gruen would have been to seek opinions on this matter. At any rate, there are more serious aspects to Fallout Protection than evaluation of its 'exhilarating assonance' and ridicule of its suggested large pail in the fallout shelter for 'human waste.' Such things can be practical. Sincerely, John L. Frewing...