Word: shelterer
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...University announces its investigation of "shelter" plans. If Harvard joins the civil defense movement, as an educational institution and civilizing force she ceases to have any relevance whatsoever. She helps to invite war. Therefore the most solemn protest in the University's history must take place. It must be undertaken with total seriousness. It must be totally coordinated. It must be immediate. It must be effective. W. F. Dancy...
...Laue is not the only glib man in the magazine. Thomas J. Babe, Jr. '63 inconclusively uses the mass media as whipping boy for the bomb shelter fad. But he has a word of comfort: "an all-out attack, precipitated perhaps by the certitude of survival, will destroy many printing presses...
...said Gordon, addressing a meeting of the National Safety Congress in Chicago, "it is completely unrealistic even to talk about a foolproof and crashproof car. An automobile must still be something that people will want to buy and use. Safety, in any environment from a bathtub to a bomb shelter, is a relative term, not an absolute. In the case of the automobile, we can only design into it the greatest degree of safety that is consistent with other essential functional characteristics. Beyond that, we must depend on intelligent...
...habitual shadowboxer, leg crosser and finger tapper-with a steady stream of generals, vice presidents, scientists and budgeteers. After hours, his social life is relaxed and seldom formal. Despite his appreciation of good food and wine, he eats and drinks sparingly. His house lacks a bomb shelter but boasts a wine vault...
Miss Simon observed that while TOCSIN and the promoters of civil defense both sought to promote "awareness of the imminent danger," those urging immediate shelter construction had a concrete next step of offer...