Word: framingham
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SANE's protest against the Framingham bomb shelter entered its second week yesterday as picket lines formed again in front of the Massachusetts State House...
...SANE demonstration was as well-planned and serious as the TOCSIN walk. While it is true that one sign out of the approximately fifty informed passers-by that "Man is not a mole," the placards were on the whole brief statements of issues regarding disarmament, civil defense, and the Framingham shelter program. The vignettes offerd by the CRIMSON writer ignored the fact that the demonstration was intended mainly as a symbolic gesture in front of the State House; its purpose to combat the apathy and misinformation of public and government alike. To this end, the demonstration was highly successful, though...
There remains the question of the protest itself. The Framingham shelter is a perfect example of what Senator Young calls the Civil Defense Boondoggle.. Planned in 1955, when warning time for an attack was four to six hours, the shelter is already obsolete, unless several million more dollars are spent for a twenty-four hour helicopter alert or a private subway from the State House. At best, the shelter holds only a fraction of the State Government, and only for ninety days. Moreover, the entire concept of protective shelters in urban centers is doubtful as a measure of national...
...picket line was organized to call public attention to the construction of a bomb shelter at Framingham, a matter which SANE says slipped through the legislature without sufficient deliberation...
Gabriel M. Kolko, teaching fellow in History and chairman of the SANE civil defense committee, said he was concerned about rallying more public support to the demonstrations. He cited the expense of the proposed Framingham shelter--$1.2 million--as one reason why the state might balk at going through with the plan...