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The commission's first program was the subject of controversy. The Los Angeles Times referred to its proposed nuclear fallout shelter plan as being “massive”, ($4,119,180,401 (adjusted for inflation, $404 million in 1961 dollars). The program would pass funds through a member of the commission, raising concerns of a conflict of interest. A ...
Barrington Plaza is an apartment complex in Los Angeles, California, located at 11740 Wilshire Boulevard in Sawtelle. At the time of its completion, in 1962, it was described as the largest privately built apartment development in the western United States .
[29] [30] 29 were arrested in City Hall Park and jailed for refusing to take shelter during a drill. [31] [32] Protests, initially small and isolated, continued and grew throughout the 1950s. [33] Opposition to the drills increased; young mothers with children joined the protests in 1960.
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"Set the Night on Fire by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener review – the real LA in the 1960s". The Guardian. Samuel Farber. "The Many Explosions of Los Angeles in the 1960s". Jacobin.. "Mike Davis and Jon Wiener's chronicle of Los Angeles in the 1960s, Set the Night on Fire, isn't just a stunning portrait of a city in upheaval half a century ago.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has pinpointed shortcomings with technology as among the obstacles she faces in homelessness programs and has described the city’s efforts to slow the crisis as “building the plane while flying it.” She said earlier this year that three to five homeless people die every day on the streets of L.A.
In the hours after being elected mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass made a promise that will be an inescapable metric of her time in office: “We are going to solve homelessness.” The Democratic ...
The fallout radiation advice in Protect and Survive was based on 1960s fallout shelter experiments [5] summarised by Daniel T. Jones of the Home Office Scientific Advisory Branch [6] in his report, The Protection Against Fallout Radiation Afforded by Core Shelters in a Typical British House which was published in Protective Structures for ...