Word: shelterer
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...last week ambitious Joe Carlino was fighting for his political life. Appearing before the assembly's Committee on Ethics and Guidance, he defended himself against conflict-of-interest charges that he had had an interest in an atom-shelter firm that stood to profit from a $100 million school and college shelter program that Carlino helped get enacted last year. The source of the charges was a political oddity: Manhattan's Freshman Democratic Assemblyman Mark Lane, 34, a shaggy lone wolf who is as popular with his liberal Yorkville and East Harlem constituency as he is unpopular with...
This is simply not true, and Rockefeller should realize that the shelter program, a contractor's dream, invites exactly the type of misbehavior that Carlino so plainly has exhibited. As Lane said in self-defense (for the counter-attack took its toll), the shelter bill was simply too important to be slammed on a legislator's desk for virtually automatic approval...
...question of national survival must not be allowed to obscure the dangers which the shelter program entails; these can only be coped with if genuine debate is allowed to flourish. Just two days ago in Congress, a conflict-of-interest issue was raised concerning the various private research firms which double as military advisers and suppliers to the federal government...
Profiteering is not the only danger suggested by the shelter boom. Legislation now before Congress ascribes a quasi-military function to private buildings, blurs the distinction between civil and national defense, and jeopardizes the strike right of building-trades workers in the name of national survival. Needless to say, Rockefeller's political stance and rhetoric before the New York Assembly subcommittee adds considerable impetus to such frightening developments...
...estimation of fallout radiation. Perhaps a better approach by Mr. Gruen would have been to seek opinions on this matter. At any rate, there are more serious aspects to Fallout Protection than evaluation of its 'exhilarating assonance' and ridicule of its suggested large pail in the fallout shelter for 'human waste.' Such things can be practical. Sincerely, John L. Frewing...