Civil Defense: Survival (Contd.)

With Nikita Khrushchev's megatomic boasts and bombs still echoing around the globe, U.S. interest in survival techniques continues to mushroom. Items:

> President Kennedy said last week that he is giving serious consideration to a plan for building large fallout shelters in populous areas along the federal interstate highway routes now under construction. The plan, proposed by Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston B. Morton, would make use of the holes highway crews dig to gather fill; it would save money by utilizing the heavy earth-moving equipment already on the potential shelter sites....

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