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...stored and carried," said Wilson, anticipating the next question, "these weapons emit no harmful radiation and present no radiation hazard to persons living near or passing by locations [e.g., Nike-Hercules' launching stations] where they are deployed. Many personnel already work in the vicinity of nuclear weapons daily...
...flunk out. "We believe," says President Fred Hovde of Purdue University, "in the doctrine of opportunity. If students fail, they at least know they've had their chance." To Headmaster Seymour St. John of Choate, mere "quickness of mind" may become far too important. "Is there not a hazard," he asks, "of neglecting by default other vital factors in a student's makeup?" Adds Admissions Director Robert Jackson of Oberlin: "You have to leave the door open for the Winston Churchills. It is said of him that on the basis of his school record, he wouldn...
...densely populated area in this country people can walk to a shelter within 15 minutes." Stored in the shelters would be food, medicines, communications equipment, decontamination devices, and mining machinery for digging out through blast-blocked entrances. "These shelters," he writes, "could provide protection, not only against the radiation hazard, but also against the biggest immediate hazard, the fire-storm...
...Opponents of P.R.D.C.'s fast breeder got one good arguing point when AEC's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards warned last June: "There is insufficient information available to give assurance that the reactor can be operated at [Monroe] without public hazard." But AEC disagreed, gave P.R.D.C. a "provisional permit" to build last August, did not publish its advisory committee's warning until October. The decision was immediately criticized by Senator Clinton P. Anderson, who is joint Congressional atomic energy chief and a public-power enthusiast. Then the U.A.W., together with the International Union of Electrical Workers...
When he had finished talking foreign policy with congressional leaders last week, President Eisenhower turned to a domestic topic that is very much on his mind. Said he: "Inflation is a great hazard. There will be pressures on you in Congress to increase spending. Congress must resist this trend. It is up to Congress to hold the line just as it is our responsibility here...