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Service with the Ventura County Civil Defense Organization convinced Californian Richard Doremus that residential nuclear fallout shelters are essential to the nation's total defense. Experience as a home builder convinced Doremus that he was the man to get things going in the "Exhibit Homes" development he was building in the Los Angeles suburbia of San Fernando Valley. For prospective buyers of his $29,500 to $31,500 houses, Doremus offered a bomb shelter under the garage for $1,100 extra. The small...
...shelter would have a concrete and steel roof 2 ft. thick, 6-in. concrete walls, and would be equipped with a handoperated air pump. After being properly stocked with food, said Doremus, it could house a family of six for six weeks. Doremus pointed out that in peacetime, the shelter could be put to use as a storeroom or photographic darkroom...
...most urgent areas requiring technical skills and help is the French Riviera. There are people on the Riviera walking around half naked, lacking shelter, and many still don't have their own boats...
...instead dipped far into the past for inspiration. The five archways and the tapered columns on the front portico go back to the Greek stoas and the Renaissance loggias that looked down upon Mediterranean plazas. The Great Hall is severe but rich, and Johnson's elegance manages to shelter whooping cowpunchers and bucking broncos without dampening their bronze spirits. The Amon Carter Museum of Western Art is meant to display the Old West, not to tame...
anding in the middle of New York's garment district, Manhattan ter has lent its shelter and its ellent acoustics to a wide variety adical movements. Earl Browder to hold forth there in the hey- of the Party; both the Fur kers and the staunchly antiinist Garment Workers met e to inveigh against the bosses, inst capitalism, and against each r. Even the murals on the walls quare-jawed, muscular proletar- "building the industry of rica" -- call to mind the days tenement-dwellers transcend- the squalidness of their daily while singing "We Shall Not Moved...