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...Administration early this year by announcing that civilian salvation lay in $34 billion-plus worth of heavy, blastproof bomb shelters. Some authorities, like Scientist Edward Teller (TIME, Jan. 21), even envisaged a vast underground network where men could survive for an indefinite time after an attack. Civil Defense Administrator Leo Hoegh (who replaced Peterson last July) has, like the Gaither committee, virtually abandoned the blast-shelter idea in favor of fallout shelters. Reason: radioactive fallout, with all its dangers, can be fought; it comes as a delayed reaction of nuclear explosions, produces aftereffects more slowly. Explains a committee member...
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Snarled Threads. Seven months before the outbreak of World War 11, scientists in the U.S. learned with alarm that physicists in Germany had succeeded in bringing about atomic fission. Shortly afterward, the U.S. incurred the first major installment of its massive debt to Hungarian-born scientists. Physicist Leo Szilard, leaping in thought from laboratory fission to atomic bomb, set out to urge the U.S. Government to get an atomic-research project going. Reasoning that a letter to President Roosevelt would have maximum impact if signed by Einstein, Szilard recruited his fellow Hungarian Edward Teller to chauffeur him out to Peconic...
...plurality just under the 1,000,000 that Tammany Boss Carmine DeSapio had predicted for him, catching new votes in long-standing Republican counties. In New York State, for the first time in 20 years, Democrats elected more mayors (29) than Republicans did (23). In Pittsburgh. Mayor David Leo Lawrence's fourth-term win established another record-breaking plurality. And in Republican New Jersey, where, to dike the Democratic tide, both President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon added weight to the ardent campaigning of Republican Malcolm Forbes, Governor Robert Meyner swamped Forbes (see below...
Slipping on a tan raincoat and battered fedora, Pittsburgh's Mayor David Leo Lawrence last week climbed into a borrowed Oldsmobile, drove through the steel city's uncertain October weather to campaign for reelection. Like the shrewd old political boss that he is, "King David" stopped at a funeral, hopped up Eleventh Ward followers to turn out the vote, popped up at rallies of the United Steelworkers and the Serbian Progressive Club. Like the latter-day apostle of civic progress that he has become, he never missed a chance to mention his "better Pittsburgh," with its smog-free...