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...bomb hits, the safest placewould be Mather House. That assumption is not thatfar off. Civil defense experts regarded Harvard asthe key to Cambridge's salvation. The HarvardCorporation formed a Civil Defense StudyCommittee, and the group concluded that Harvard'sextensive network of tunnels and basements couldprovide 25,000 people with shelter from nuclearfallout. So if you said go to Mather when the bombhits, you were close. You'd be better off,however, in the Adams House tunnels...
Today, while we still have the basements andtunnels, they are no longer kept stocked withcanned food and boxes of government-suppliedBulgar wheat biscuits. But the yellow and blackfallout shelter sign still hangs outside of Adams,Wigglesworth, Eliot and other buildings throughoutcampus, testimony to an era gone...
...HELTER SHELTER...
Because this will be one undeniable effect of welfare reform, as passed by the House and contemplated in many states. One of the first things a woman is likely to do when fleeing an abusive relationship is apply for welfare; officials at some battered-women's shelters report that 60% to 95% of the women they help go on welfare, at least for the short term. These are such women as the San Antonio mother of three profiled in the Houston Chronicle, who fled when her otherwise straight-living, Baptist, teetotaler husband took to slapping her in front...
...Powell also gives speeches for up to $60,000 each to corporate groups and universities. But many speeches are for free: to kids in inner-city schools, to inmates at a prison in Lorton, Virginia, to a veterans' hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Powell quietly helps out at a homeless shelter in Washington, organizing a clothing drive and delivering mattresses on the roof of his station wagon...