Activity Listings
- Handwritten letter from Sherwood Waldron Jr. to LP, RE: Waldron read LP's recent letter to the Times about fallout shelters and is confused. LP stated that essentially no one would survive in a 75,000 square mile area if a 100 megaton bomb was exploded high enough. However, a recent series of civil defense television programs indicated that a 50 megaton bomb would completely destroy a five mile radius, but that no damage would reach people in fallout shelters outside this radius, and that beyond 60 miles one would not expect flash fires. Waldron, a Yale student, is engaged in an attempt to build a shelter under a dormitory, but does not want to raise the necessary funds if, indeed, the fallout shelter would not be effective. Waldron asks for the sources of LP's statistics and asks if LP could suggest an explanation the large discrepancy between his figures and those of the civil defense authorities. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1960-1962), #445.2]
- Itinerary [handwritten]: Moscow; 250th Anniversary of the birth of Lomonosov [Filed under LP Travel, Box #1.003, Folder 3.1]
- Letter from Joan R. Harris, Secretary to LP, to Raymond Chavira, Jr., RE: Caltech will be closed on November 24, but Mr. Chavira may call Mrs. Harris at home to arrange a meeting to gather the requested information. [Letter from Raymond Chavira, Jr., to Joan R. Harris, November 19, 1961] [Letter from Joan R. Harris to Raymond Chavira, Jr., November 30, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1961-1962), #76.1]
- Letter from K.S. Pitzer to LP (Members of the Section of Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences) RE: Encloses the formal nomination ballot for the year showing the number of votes each candidate received on the latest informal ballot. Carl Niemann has received the unanimous vote to assume Chairmanship of the Chemistry Section. [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1955-1969), Box #14.021, Folder #21.4]
- Letter from Lee Benham to LP RE: At Knox College the student senate submitted a referendum to students asking for their opinion on whether there should be atmospheric nuclear testing. The results of the vote were that students do not favor the idea of resuming atmospheric nuclear testing. [Letter from LP to Benham December 28, 1961] [Filed under LP Peace: Materials re: Fallout and Radiation Shelters, and Civil Defense, 1954-1961: Box #7.007, Folder #7.22]
- Letter from Linda Pauling Kamb to Ernst Schwarcz RE: Explains that LP left for New York and Boston, but that she talked on the phone with him and he gives his permission for No More War! to be published in East Germany. [Letter from Schwarcz to LP November 10, 1961, Letter from LP to Schwarcz December 27, 1961] [Filed under LP Books: 1958b3.1]
- Letter from Linda Pauling Kamb to Etta Linton, RE: In the absence of LP, Linda will try and answer the questions. She gives her two young sons a teaspoon each day of dicalcium phosphate powder, and she has heard that only young children and lactating or pregnant women need a calcium supplement in their diet. She has not heard of any way to counteract cesium 137, but has heard that potassium iodide can be used for iodine 131. There is not way to detect radiation in foods. [Letter from Linton to LP, November 7, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1961-1963), #232.1]
- Letter from Linda Pauling Kamb to Meyer Korbman, Hawthorne Avenue School, RE: LP is out of the country until next month, when he will comment on their project. Linda sends one of LP’s letters to the NY Times on the evils of Strontium 19, as well as a few others. Also suggests they write to The Committee on Nuclear Information, St. Louis. Handwritten at the bottom: “plus, I mentioned No More War-included Frontier reprint. [Letter from Korbman to LP, undated] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1957-1962), #201.5]
- Letter from Linda Pauling Kamb to Mrs. Philip Gray, RE: LP is away until the middle of next month, when he will answer the letter. However, he will be gone during the month of January, so if he does agree to come to Claremont he won’t be able to until after the beginning of February. She is pleased to hear that people everywhere are becoming more aware of the danger of the world situation. [Note from Mrs. Gray to LP, November 20, 1961] [Letter from LP to Mrs. Gray, December 27, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1957-1961), #141.5]
- Note from Rowland Evans to LP, RE: Congratulates LP on his letter to the NY Times opposing tests. Mr. Evans wrote a letter to this effect to the President just before coming across LP’s letter. Asks LP if anything else can be done to strengthen this position. [Letter from LP to Mr. Evans, December 22, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1960-1969), #113.2]
- Program: “Программа Концерта...”, [Concert in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of M.V. Lomonosov, State Academic Bolshoi, Moscow, USSR] November 21, 1961. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1961-1965), Box #6.008, Folder #8.156]
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