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CIVIL DEFENSE. The public reaction to past civil defense programs has been apathetic and skeptical, the President admitted. Yet civil defense is "insurance which we could never forgive ourselves for forgoing in the event of catastrophe." Therefore, Kennedy proposed a whopping threefold increase of appropriations (from $104 million to more than $312 million) to launch a long-range, nationwide fallout-shelter program...
...losing season in 1960. Last fall, the Ford Foundation awarded Notre Dame something incomparably more valuable than a football championship: the honor, as one of five rapidly improving universities (none other Catholic) of receiving millions in unrestricted grants. Notre Dame's operating budget is up threefold, its science budget tenfold. Hesburgh has put up twelve new buildings, ranging from dormitories to a science center. To house an eventual 2,000,000 books, five times more than now, Hesburgh has under way a new $8,000,000 library...
Miss Hellman prefaced her remarks with a threefold explanation of her misgivings about discussing the theater. First, she admitted a strong distaste for people who incessantly talk about the theater. "My head swizzles often," she said, "at such talk. Talking excessively about art is a sterile form of living which tends to drive art out of existence...
Among veteran observers of the Quadros mind, both in Washington and Brasilia, Jânio's actions produced more resigned shoulder shrugging than alarm. Jânio's motives, the experts believe, are threefold: 1) a sincere desire to make Brazil more "independent" internationally, 2) the belief that to hold the allegiance of Brazil's left-wing voters he must make a show of "neutralism," 3) a profound suspicion that even in these days of "disinterested" foreign aid programs, the wheel that squeaks still gets the most grease. Almost certainly Jânio hopes that at least...
...Neutron Bomb. Pentagon worriers go a step farther than AEC. They argue that the U.S. cannot afford to remain stagnant in nuclear development even if the Soviets do, for clear-cut U.S. nuclear superiority is the best deterrent to attack. A few further nuclear tests, they say, would boost threefold the blast power of the two key U.S. deterrent missiles - the mobile, solid-fueled Polaris and Minuteman -which now carry warheads of one-half megaton, v. an estimated eight megatons for Soviet ICBMs. Testing would also speed development of a next-generation "neutron bomb." Now on the drawing boards, that...