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...themselves with at least a two-week supply of both water and food. For drinking, one quart of water per shelter occupant per day is considered necessary; in addition, another daily half-gallon per person is recommended for washing and other sanitation purposes. Although water should be stored in plastic or metal containers-blast might break glass bottles-anything would do in an emergency. The food should be imperishable or long-lasting, and neither salty nor sweet, to inhibit thirst. Says Margaret Moore, nutritionist for the Louisiana Board of Health: "Keep a few canned vegetables you can eat cold...
...efficient shelter are an air-intake-exhaust system, a first-aid kit, flashlights and a battery radio (the shelter may need an antenna; otherwise, the radio might be useless underground). Chemical toilets are available at reasonable prices; the minimum provision for disposing of human waste is a stock of plastic bags. Among other useful items: sanitary napkins (which can double as bandages), toothache pills, tranquilizers. deodorants and air purifiers, tight-lidded garbage cans, matches, a can opener, bunk beds with paper sheets, books and games for children...
...Mormons stockpile a full two-year supply in their larders. Others purvey all-purpose packages, such as the Bolton Farm Packing Co.'s "home survival kits," containing 49 items, from canned water to playing cards. Perhaps the most ghoulish shelter article is the "burial suit," a $50 polyvinyl plastic wrapper for" anyone who dies in a shelter. It contains chemicals "to keep odors down" and can be used as a sleeping bag by the living...
...ever shall be, world without end"). In a full recitation, which takes 20 minutes, the user goes around the rosary three times, and the Hail Marys, including the required extras, total 153. Rosaries are not necessarily beads; manufacturers of religious gadgetry, despite general church disapproval, peddle plastic counters and clickers with buttons to press and needles to point...
...success. George deals authoritatively with his work. "I simply will not associate myself with anything I don't believe in. like the artichoke hairdo. I don't like it. and I won't do it. and that's that. I will take no one with plastic shoes or purses, and I won't do anybody under 18." His clients include Cyd Charisse, Hedda Hopper, Mrs. Henry Ford II and Anita Colby, all out of their teens, and not one of whom would be caught dead in plastic. And George is as admiring of his patrons...