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...million might die. What can be done, however, is to shield survivors from the deadly radioactive fallout that can drift down wind as far as 200 miles from a bomb blast. To protect against that danger, the $207.6 million requested last week will be spent mainly on a fallout shelter program...
...largest sum-$93 million-will be spent to mark existing community shelters in public buildings, underground garages, subway systems and the like. By late 1962, 34 million shelter spaces will be marked out and ready. Another $58.8 million will go for stocking a minimum supply of water and wheat wafers, first-aid kits, and tools for debris removal. Another $10 million is earmarked for modifying existing shelters; by adding forced draft ventilators, many can be improved to take care of more people. To get civilians under cover in time, $10 million will be spent developing the acronymously named NEAR (National...
Beer & Britannica. No money has been set aside for home shelters. But by last week, the Berlin crisis and the Kennedy address combined to make more Americans than ever consider building their own. Day after the President spoke, civil defense offices across the country were flooded with demands for shelter information. In Denver, Home Builder Jack Hoerner quickly sold three new houses containing built-in shelters. A Virginia realtor put ads in Washington newspapers plugging "life and peace of mind outside the Washington target area" at Bull Run. In Chicago, Leo Hoegh, Eisenhower's civil defense director...
...attention will be focused on civil defense. Last week the President turned over to the Pentagon primary responsibility for civil-defense planning. He was also considering a call for a big new program, including more public bomb shelters, food storing and home-shelter education...
...retires to a sumptuous fieldstone house in the residential enclave for Communist bigwigs near Liepnitz Lake, where he, his Communist wife Lotte and a 17-year-old daughter share the comforts of a movie house, ballroom, restaurant, swimming pool, massage parlor and nuclear bomb shelter with the other top 20 families of East Germany...