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Under Rockefeller's program-which he signed into law at week's end-New York will pay up to 50% of the cost of shelter building at schools and colleges, provide $15 million for shelters at state-run institutions. Although the program may cost $100 million or more, the state's taxpayers will not have to dig down for extra cash: the law merely unfreezes money that was originally set aside for new roads, and that became available for shelter use when Congress failed to provide sufficient matching funds. The legislation includes stiff penalties aimed at contractors...
...Southern California, reactions to the high-caste holocaust constituted a weird and wonderful display of human idiosyncrasies. Bandleader Billy Vaughn was among the 150 fire fighters injured (none of them seriously). Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby came home to find the roof of his much-publicized $30 fallout shelter reduced to coals, stubbornly insisted: "I have more faith than ever in the shelter." Kim Novak, artfully decked out in slacks, soot and no bra, rushed back from her studio during the fire to grab up a garden hose, but was unabashedly just as concerned with soaking up publicity as with...
Discussing civil defense, Saltonstall said that Congress probably will approve an expanded fallout shelter program if President Kennedy proposes one. Previously, "Congress has been cynical" about civil defense, he noted, because so many "foolish" plans had been presented...
...only regret that I have but five minutes in which to read the CRIMSON but the rest of the time is occupied in studying, sleeping or working on my bomb shelter. Harvard students seem to have such a talent for knowing what will happen in the next few years that it is a shame not to be able to read all their theories. They are so, so cute...
...lack of a crisis atmosphere, plus Russian reliance on the fact that the U.S. will not engage in a surprise attack, thinks Gouré, accounts for the absence of bomb shelter signs on buildings. "Because they believe they will have more time before attack than we," he says, "they have planned for putting up such signs during a long-range alert. The shelters are there, but they aren't posted. During my trip, I asked a man in Stalingrad about a vented block of unmarked concrete sticking out of the sidewalk. 'Ah,' he said with a shrug...