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Private cars were banned within a 15-mile radius of Lake Placid, and an elaborate bus system was devised to shuttle some 25,000 spectators per day to outlying parking areas. It did not work. Hundreds were stranded for hours in the subfreezing cold, miles from events, motels or parking lots. To help out where needed, the committee set up a cadre of volunteers from the surrounding area. Garbed in bright blue snowsuits with yellow trim, they did their earnest best to make visitors feel welcome. The state police took their responsibilities so seriously that they hauled away an illegally...
...plants still under construction. The new rules will include two of the most urgent recommendations of the presidential commission, which was headed by Dartmouth President John Kemeny. One was for stiffer training of plant operators. The other was for emergency evacuation plans for people living within a ten-mile radius of nuclear plants...
...census of 17,000 households containing 50,000 residents within a five-mile radius of the crippled plant. The six-week census, to be funded by the Center for Disease Control and the National Cancer Institute, will collect names and medical histories, as well as the whereabouts of household members during the accident...
...Pennsylvania health department survey of all pregnant women and their offspring within a ten-mile radius of the plant, to determine any increase in miscarriages, premature births or infant abnormalities and early deaths. The hope: to confirm predictions that no such ill effects are likely...
...Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph A. Califano Jr. backed away from his original estimate that the Harrisburg nightmare would cause no cancer deaths among the 2 million people living within a 50-mile radius of Three Mile Island. Appearing before Ohio Senator John Glenn's nuclear proliferation and energy subcommittee, Califano predicted at least one death and acknowledged that some scientific investigators were estimating up to ten deaths. The revision was necessary because it turns out that the initial levels of radiation released in the accident were higher than thought at the time...