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...Defense Association, an 800-member group that agitates, without much success, for federally funded bomb shelters. "That's our hang-up," he said. "Our reason for being is nuclear attack." Despite a voice just like Jimmy Stewart's and an utterly genial manner, Murphey sat alone in his exhibition booth almost the whole time he was there. "People aren't too interested," he admitted. "If we could just harness some of the enthusiasm that these folks show for natural disasters for civil defense...
Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Velluci, who came up with idea for the booth during his term as mayor several years ago, said the booth was "nicer than the one in the Harvard Yard, but I would have built it for less money...
...Cambridge is really neat. I read about all this historical stuff growing up, about the revolutionary war, and now I just get off the subway and here it all is," said Hugh J. Murphy, a resident of Santa Rose, Calif who stopped by the new information booth one day last week, laden with backpack, to find out where he could stay while doing temporary work in Cambridge...
Guided tours of the area will leave from the booth three times a day during the summer. The tours, of the University and "Old Cambridge" historical sites, will run for an hour and-a-half and will cost $3 per person...
...cupcake-like information booth is just the latest in a series of face-lifts to the hub of the Square this spring. May brought the end of a $72 million extension of the Red Line to Alewife, and the end of six years of noise, dirt, and general confusion for Square travelers...