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A fabled mass evacuation of Cambridge for Civil Defense purposes will not take place on June 2, Edmund Burke, director of Civil Defense in Cambridge, said yesterday.
The rumored drill, a practice safety measure for protection against a hydrogen bomb attack, would have evicted students from the banks of the Charles. Others would have been forced to postpone exams to a future date.
Burke added that there will be a four-day communications exercise starting July 20, but it will not involve the public. He said that a public test probably will not take place for a few years.
The evacuation scare started earlier in the spring, when Gov. Christian A. Herter '15 announced that all critical areas in the state would be evacuated in June to prepare for attack.
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