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...FEMA's internal telephone directory, Mount Weather is referred to simply as SF, for Special Facility, and that is what it is called by all who are assigned there. "I was ((at the agency)) for almost two years before I heard the term Mount Weather," says Julius Becton, who headed FEMA from 1985 to 1989. The installation has no street address, merely a post-office box in Berryville, Va., a sleepy hamlet eight miles away...
...Fowler, could be closed off with a so-called guillotine gate; behind it is a solid steel door that Fowler estimates is 5 ft. thick, 10 ft. high and nearly 20 ft. across. It rests on wheels and can be opened and closed electronically. Says former FEMA head Becton: "The entrance is such that if they were to pop a nuke, it would withstand whatever they popped...
Preparing for exams is an accepted part of classroom life, but students at Henry P. Becton Regional High School in East Rutherford, N.J., may soon be given the sort of test that is hard to cram for. Two months ago, the local school board voted that all 479 of the youngsters at Becton must submit to urinalysis in a search for drug users. The screening is now on hold, while five students backed by the American Civil Liberties Union test the testing in court. "It's against the Bill of Rights that we're supposed to be learning about...
...many biotechnology companies have been looking for fresh capital infusions and alliances with big chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Cytogen (fiscal 1983 revenues: $383,000), a small Princeton, N.J., firm, for example, has developed a kit for diagnosing gonorrhea. But it sold the technology to Health Care Manufacturer Becton Dickinson of Paramus, N.J., which will actually make the product...
...does accomplish what it was intended to do: provide an alternative to the general dreariness of the commercial networks. If the Reagan budget cuts go through and new money is not found, the system will begin to shrink, and eventually could disappear. Warns WGBH's general manager Henry Becton: "In two years public television could be a pale shadow of what it was-with nothing to replace it." -By Gerald Clarke...