Word: shelterer
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...work, primarily, "to produce necessary food and shelter." But not everyone can enjoy the virtues of plowing or laying bricks, so Goodman considers the case of a young auto mechanic...
...reply to Messrs. Schnur and Cowan on the issue of fallout shelters (CRIMSON 10/14/60), Mr. Gilder has made the same gross omissions that he attributed to both these contributors. His argument that less expensive countermeasures will eventually damage the effectiveness of fallout shelters is not without merit. However, considerations of a political and much broader kind legislate against the advisability of a shelter program. These considerations spring from the world consensus that mankind has a bleak future in a permanent "armsathon," and that no effort to call a halt is too great or too soon. The United States...
...must not, as experts caution, be viewed simply as a monolithic conspirator on the world stage. The inhabitants have fears and beliefs, both real and forged, but sufficient to cause them to react to every move on our part quite as we react to every move on theirs. A shelter program of the size required to make it effective would provoke the Russians not unreasonably to a defensive anger, give them (and uncommitted nations) greater reason to suspect our intentions, compel them to react with countermeasures, and result finally in widening the lift between our two worlds. There...
...warning that "the problem of the century is the problem of the city." Dismayed by blight and overcrowding, Kiyonori Kikutake designed a city over water consisting of a huge floating deck that would be pierced by great concrete cylinders lined with dwellings. Buckminster Fuller planned a dome to shelter Manhattan, and Hans Poelzig a towering, terraced metropolis reminiscent of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon...
...disadvantageous situation from occurring. We could undertake a vast civil defense program to reduce probable American casualties to an estimated ten million and thus render at least credible our threat of massive retaliation to an invasion of Europe... Or, because of the deficiencies I mentioned earlier of a shelter system, we can increase vastly the fire power and mobility of our conventional and tactical nuclear forces in Europe. Though I would advocate the latter approach, a civil defense program, accompanied by constant statements of our belief in its considerable effectiveness, is probably better than no improvement...