Word: greenfielders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge relocation plan is typical of the evacuations 200 FEMA regional officials are planning around the country. In the face of what one administrator casually calls a "gradually increasing crisis." 100,000 Cantabrigians would travel 100 miles west on Route 2 to Greenfield. Mass. In that small town of 20,000 evacuees would presumably be far enough away to avoid the blast itself and would take shelter for the days of heavy fallout in predesignated buildings...
...accommodate the thousands of city dwellers without cars, including most of the Harvard student body, the train that normally runs from Boston to Greenfield would make frequent stops in Cambridge and repeat its two-and-one-half-hour run several times a day, officials say. Once in Greenfield, evacuees would live in municipal buildings, motels and private businesses with about 20 square feet per person. Few would have beds...
...recent FEMA survey indicates that 95 percent of Greenfield's families would share their homes with Cambridge families--a major source of satisfaction for FEMA planners. They add that no one will be forced to comply with any of these plans at either end. "There is nothing that says you have to go, and nobody is going house-to-house to check," says Forbes...
...prevent a stampede for that single Greenfield train or an hysterical demolition derby on Memorial Drive. Forbes says local police will seal off the major routes leaving the city. "We want to reduce this as much as possible," says Forbes...
There were 44 seniors in the Greenfield class, quite a drop from the high of 72 who graduated in 1979. The baby boom has run out. Only about half of the 100th class will go to college, estimated Superintendent William Sandholm. That is an admission of retreat before the economic realities of these times and the Reagan Administration's budget cuts. ("Dutch" Reagan's sportscasts of Big Ten football and major league baseball from Des Moines entertained many of these Greenfielders a half-century...