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...government relocation sites situated around the capital in what became known as the Federal Arc. Each year the government conducted elaborate exercises in which thousands of officials relocated in ( mock nuclear attacks. Eisenhower and his Cabinet convened at Raven Rock, the 265,000-sq.-ft. "Underground Pentagon" near Gettysburg, Pa., code-named "Site R," or at Mount Weather, a bunker near Berryville, Va., code-named "High Point" (see "Doomsday Hideaway," TIME, Dec. 9, 1991). Airborne command posts and reinforced communications ships stood by to receive the Commander in Chief and his advisers. Congress had its own top-secret relocation center...
...until last May, an underground meteorological station at the site issued daily reports on wind direction and speed, plotting potential radiation patterns. The site's television studio is prepared to provide the President -- or his successor -- a national audience over the Emergency Broadcast System. Throughout the Eisenhower Administration -- and for years after -- a vault held tape-recorded addresses by both Eisenhower and celebrity Arthur Godfrey. The prerecorded message was concise: The country has come under nuclear attack, but the government continues to function. In addition, a number of prominent newsmen who had taken oaths of secrecy had agreed to accompany...
...Gennaro said that when he worked asAssociate Director of the library in 1967, he putthe microforms department in the underground"Widener level" of Lamont...
...figured I could test my tolerance for hard-core parody, see if my sense of humor could withstand this gross spectacle which everyone was saying could be the underground's next big thing. The could be genuinely funny, after all, sort of like Spinal Tap with an edge. I mean, they were just benign art students under all the papier mache, right...
Archeologist here, eager to turn up Harvard's underground history, asked the administration to inform them of any utilities they planned to put in the ground...