CIVIL DEFENSE: The Open Road

The Civil Defense Administration last week was planning to recommend to state governments to take down the familiar road signs that instruct civilians not to use highways in event of enemy attack. Reason: the signs, put up in the duck-and-hide days of the atomic bomb, do not make sense in the run-for-your-life hydrogen-bomb age.

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