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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...
...Greenfield auditorium was full, a tribute to the century that had been and to all those families that have lived on the land and want to stay. There were memories of Theodore Roosevelt, whose muscular idealism enraptured the town at the turn of the century, as well as stories of men who had fought at Belleau Wood in World War I and the Bulge in World War II. And always there was talk of the weather, of drought and flood and tornado and sun. Many on this graduation day had left their tractors and corn planters bogged down in fields...
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...