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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...recent treatise on the subject seriously inquired: "Can Junior fall instantly, face down, elbow out, forehead on elbow, eyes shut? Have him try it tonight as he gets into bed." Junior could probably do the trick all right. A little practice and an understanding of the situation might save the life of a small boy born into the Atomic Age. The treatise-explained how: "Junior will feel the wind go by, the dirt and pebbles blown with hurricane force against his head . . . A few cuts on the arms and legs aren't important. His playmates, standing upright, will...
Such precautions would help. There were other steps every citizen could take to save his own life if his city should be bombed (see box). But to save the lives of others, to keep a bomb-shattered community going, would require plans and cooperation such as the U.S. had never been forced to think about before...
From across the rivers would roll contraptions for clearing roads-bulldozers, road scrapers, clamshell scoops, cranes resembling prehistoric monsters-to try to cope somehow with history's biggest pile of rubble. Medical squads would treat the maimed and the burned, administer blood, try to save the thousands of victims of shock, who would die within a few hours if they were untended...
Said Acheson, as he submitted the plan to the General Assembly: "Before us lies opportunity for action which can save the hope of peace . . . Before us also lies opportunity for drift, for irresolution, for effort feebly made . . . The choice is ours . . . There is no longer any question: Will the United Nations survive? . . . This question has been answered ... by United Nations action against aggression in Korea. Blood is thicker than...
Patient Pierce was suffering from a breast cancer, and it was so far advanced that surgery was impossible. Memorial's doctors gave her drugs to ease the pain and hormones to slow the cancer's spread, thus prolonged the life they could not save. Week after week Miss Pierce went back for treatment. Once she told a clinic social worker: "I have never met with such kindness before in my life." It was plain to Memorial officials that Margaret Pierce could pay only nominal sums for her care; most of it was free. In a year she paid...