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...intensity and position to the control center. When a team encountered radiation above 30 roentgens per hour, it would chalk a red "D" (for danger) on a house wall. (A green "S" would mean safe.) Then the team would turn and move around the damage center in a clockwise pattern tracing the limits of the 30-roentgen area and marking it with...
Marked Map. Back in the control center each report from the team would be marked on a city map, which would swiftly form a pattern of radiological warning. Guided by the marked map the control center would then be ready to issue evacuation orders. If the people in "hot" areas got out quickly (a few blocks might be enough), they might not be seriously damaged. If they stayed too long (or stampeded into a danger area) they would soon be beyond help...
...asked each youngster to write down the names of the two classmates he liked most and the two he liked least. After a fortnight's interval, he asked them to name the two classmates they considered handsomest, the two they considered ugliest. With few exceptions, Haiker found, the pattern was the same: the handsome boys were also the most popular. No one liked the ugly ducklings. "I just can't stand him!" came the refrain. Just why looks should be so important to children, Teacher Haiker did not pretend to know. But the fact remained that the most...
...week, began with Zebulon High School in Pike County, an unkempt building with creaking steps and crumbling plaster, and a rusty bell without a clapper. Close by stood its "lunchroom " a former Army barracks that sagged and leaned dangerously. Through 28 Georgia counties Reporter Shannon came upon a similar pattern of dirt and decay-"a theme," she wrote, "that plays almost like a broken record . . . over & over & over . . . in unfortunate Georgia schools...
...pattern of thought of which the U.S. was going to hear more. Essentially, in the world's great crisis, the U.S. was faced with two alternatives: 1) keeping and cherishing the allies with whom it had stood before, or 2) going into the type of hemisphere isolation advocated by Joe Kennedy and many others still to be heard from. Alternative One called for all the powers that diplomacy, hard work and decision could muster. It had to be pursued as a task in operations, just as rearmament is a task in operations, and it had to be carried...