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...best salesmen are named Khrushchev and Kennedy," Chicago's Frank F. Norton, president of the National Shelter Association, cried last fall. With Khrushchev threatening war over Berlin, and Kennedy encouraging U.S. families to build home shelters, Norton's own Atomic Shelter Corp. and scores of other companies were swamped with orders to build a haven in the basement or bury one in the backyard. But last week Norton, who has lost $100,000 and estimates that over 600 firms have failed, had changed his tune. Grieved he: "The market is dead-the manufacturers have...
...Brother Martin had established an orphanage and foundling hospital. He loved animals as well as people, and filled the convent with wounded stray dogs and cats, which he nursed back to health. He even liked the convent mice, feeding them scraps of food and setting up a shelter for them in the garden...
troops. SANE opposes all fallout shelter programs, contends that President Kennedy plans to resume tests not for military but for "political-psychological reasons." It urges Kennedy to hold off on testing until he is absolutely certain that the Soviet Union will not sign a test-ban treaty-as if the U.S.S.R.'s refusal were not already perfectly plain. SANE's general outlook is reflected by kindly Dr. Benjamin Spock...
Teller's stress on missile defense systems, the possibility of limited nuclear war, and the necessity of a massive bomb shelter system were also rejected by the authors of the article...
...scientists claimed that a serious nuclear attack could nullify the best defensive measures, and dismissed the belief in limited nuclear warfare as "madness," terming the proposed nation-wide shelter system an impossibility...