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Sinking Island. For a while, if the flood of escapees continued, it almost seemed as if overcrowded Hong Kong would burst and sink. The West sensed a powerful duty to relieve Hong Kong and help shelter these patient, dogged refugees from Red misery-and yet there was little enough the West was ready...
Just as the exterior symbolized to Saarinen "the excitement of the trip," so the interior suggests the constant flow of human traffic. To Saarinen. form did not merely follow function-it was also meant to lift the spirit: "Architecture is not just to fulfill man's need for shelter, but also to fulfill man's belief in the nobility of his existence on earth...
What killed home shelters was the lull in the cold war plus the Kennedy Administration's decision to stress large-scale, community shelters over backyard bunkers. Says Ray Toland Sr., a Los Angeles shelter maker who failed: "It's been a real loused-up deal. All this blah-blah-blah about a $30 shelter or a $300 shelter, and about private and community shelters. People got so confused they didn't know what was right-and they still don't." In Oklahoma City, the number of inquiries about shelters received monthly by one company has dropped...
...Many shelter manufacturers have moved into other lines of production. After switching from swimming pools to shelters, one firm in Boston is back to swimming pools again. Once burned by the shelter boom-to-bust, the manufacturers are twice wary. Says Norton: "If we had another international crisis, I don't know of a manufacturer who would make a move of his own until we got an explicit national plan endorsing home shelters...
...scanning the terrain below over the barrels of .30-caliber machine guns. McNamara landed inside the defenses of a "strategic hamlet" called Ben Tuong, the pilot project of the U.S.-backed Operation Sunrise that was set up two months ago to isolate the population and to deny the Communists shelter and supplies...