Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contract, Martin is also making lunar tools, including a lightweight geological hammer, a hand lens and a scale to weigh rocks in the light gravity. Westinghouse is spending $4,800,000 to make tiny TV cameras to transmit live pictures of exploration back to earth. To shelter the moon explorers, Lockheed is planning surface living quarters in sausage-shaped tanks, and General Electric is working on an extensive underground base that would be blasted out of the moon's depths...
...plot, a slapdaptation of Actor-Author Robert Shaw's straight-faced novel The Hiding Place, gropes for drollery in the plight of two American airmen (Michael Connors and Robert Redford) who arrive in Germany by parachute and seek refuge in Prick's basement bomb shelter...
...party is to be one of only two, it must necessarily be broad, a place where many kinds of people can find political shelter. In his little classic, Parties and Politics in America, Cornell's Clinton Rossiter writes of "the deep overlapping of the beliefs and programs and even voters of the parties. They are the creatures of compromise, coalitions of interest in which principle is muted and often even silenced. They are the vast, gaudy, friendly umbrellas under which all Americans, whoever and wherever and however-minded they be, are invited to stand for the sake of being...
Hooverville shanties went out with the 1930s, and Government-subsidized apartments are climbing skyward in the slums, but most of the poor continue to suffer mean and overcrowded shelter. The 1960 census listed 15.6 million of the nation's 58 million houses and apartments as substandard -including 3,000,000 shacks and tenements and 8,300,000 "deteriorating houses," where the poor often pay a higher rental per square foot than the middle classes do. Health is also a poverty problem. The poor suffer mental illness at a sinister rate, triple that of the middle and upper classes, according...
...Says University of Washington Law Professor Ralph W. Johnson, an authority on the legal and economic problems of water: "It is time we stopped thinking about water as a unique commodity, governed by novel rules outside the ordinary economic pattern. It is no more unique than food, clothing or shelter...