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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard and Radcliffe seniors may be looking for shelter instead of sheepskin at next June's Commencement, Edward W. Burke, director of Cambridge Civil Defense indicated yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Raid Test May Halt Graduation | 3/30/1955 | See Source »

...pyramids in the necropolis at Sakkara. It is less than half as long as the ship of Cheops (whose pyramid is also the biggest), and its wood is badly decayed. But it has all the main features of later soul ships. On its deck is a cabin to shelter the soul of the dead Pharaoh. Pottery vessels hold food and drink for his royal feasts, and plates and eating utensils are ready for his use. The ship's keel is accurately pointed parallel to the equator, so that it will sail in the right direction when it starts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: First Soul Boat | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...computations are based on the worst possible conditions, i.e., they assume that no one would take protective measures. Paradoxically, old and simple steps are highly effective against the new and horrible peril. Taking shelter in an old-fashioned Kansas cyclone cellar with a 3-ft. ceiling of earth until the fallout is over will reduce the immediate radiation absorbed by a human being to a safe level, even in the worst fallout area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: The Fatal Fall-Out | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Student wardens would probably also work at shelter areas and allocation centers about 20 miles outside Cambridge, Burke said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Civil Defense Delays Plan to Start Student Air Raid Warden Classes | 2/19/1955 | See Source »

...Hydrogen bomb has made the old "seek shelter" plan useless, said Burke, and all hope for survival would lie in a mass movement out of Cambridge to the north and west...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Civil Defense Plans Mass Exodus of College in War | 2/16/1955 | See Source »

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