Word: shelterer
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...When I get my shelter finished, I'm going to mount a machine gun at the hatch to keep the neighbors out if the bomb falls. I'm deadly serious about this. If the stupid American public will not do what they have to to save themselves, I'm not going to run the risk of not being able to use the shelter I've taken the trouble to provide to save my own family...
This kind of tough talk from a Chicago suburbanite last week had echoes all over the U.S., as the headlines spread uneasiness and the shelter business boomed. In Austin, Texas, Hardware Dealer Charles Davis stashed four rifles and a .357 Magnum pistol in his shelter and pointed out its four-inch-thick wooden door: "This isn't to keep radiation out, it's to keep people out." Davis is also prepared in the event that some of his shelterless neighbors get into his shelter before he does. "I've got a .38 tear...
Swarm of Locusts. "This seems to be something that looms very large in a lot of people's minds," says Vice President Roger Culler of International Shelter Corp. Many shelter owners, for example, go to great lengths to keep their shelters secret-even to the extent of passing off shelter construction workers as furnace repairmen...
...HUGH SAUSSY of Holy Innocents Episcopal Church in Atlanta: "If someone wanted to use the shelter, then you yourself should get out and let him use it. That's not what would happen, but that's the strict Christian application...
Some cautious householders were already prepared with custom-built shelters. In West Los Angeles, Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard F. Libby proudly displayed his "poor man's shelter." Dug out of a hillside, it is protected with railroad ties and bags of dirt, is adequate for a 48-hour stay, cost all of $30. In Malibu, Missile Scientist and Electronics Manufacturer Bernard Benson, his wife and seven children had a $15,000 shelter built to withstand any bomb damage but a direct hit. Along with food and water, Benson has stocked his hideout with beer and a 1925 edition...