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...Business School has studied use of its tunnel system and basement areas for shelters. It has arrived at no conclusions, however, as to what food and water provisions if any hold and what to do with its records. There are no plans at this point for building a new structure for shelter...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Committee Will Prepare Fallout Protection Plans | 10/19/1961 | See Source »

...customers and grumbles: ''They won't buy German vegetables any more, even when they're cheaper." Looking toward outer space, Britain, France and West Germany are establishing a $200 million project to build a European rocket. Deep beneath the Alps, workmen are blasting an auto tunnel under Mont Blanc; when it is completed next year, Paris and Rome will be 124 miles closer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Then Will It Live . . . | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...clock in the afternoon, a small cloud of sand puffed over Rainier Mesa, Nev. From a tunnel deep below the mesa's sandy surface, a muffled thud rose to shake the desert silence. Minutes later in Washington, President John F. Kennedy announced that the U.S. had "reluctantly" completed its first nuclear-weapons test in nearly three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cold War: The Long Shadow | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...week conceded that it may have to ground its Convair 990 before the plane ever goes into production. Reason: the 990 has developed a mysterious "drag" that keeps it from hitting the promised 640-m.p.h. cruising speed that would make it the world's fastest jet transport. Wind-tunnel tests to be completed next month will provide the data to determine whether the time and expense of eliminating the drag will be too great to bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Jet Albatross (Contd.) | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

After six months at Northwestern University, Beatty was bored, quit college and went to New York, where he found even more boredom working as a sandhog on the new tube of the Lincoln Tunnel. Shifting to show business, he played tinkly-tonk cocktail-hour piano in a bin on 58th Street, saved enough money to take a six months' course at Stella Adler's acting school. Scoring minor successes on television (Studio One, Playhouse 90), he eventually won a screen test with Director Joshua Logan, who asked him to demonstrate his kissing talents, using Actress Jane Fonda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: The Rise of Geyger Krocp | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

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