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...advice: "Leave the city or die." The air is among the worst in the U.S. even on good days, but last week really dramatized the reason for the doctors' concern. On Monday night an atmospheric inversion settled over the city. The sky turned reddish-brown, as clouds of ash, soot, and foundry dust produced by the city's factories were trapped beneath. By Tuesday, the pollution level had risen to 771 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter of air, nearly four times the level considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency...
...stand last week at the Ash Grove in Los Angeles, gathered around a silver and red loudspeaker bank inscribed BLUES POWER, Muddy and his men played with a controlled exuberance that suggested disciplined violence. The band was as tight as one of the strings on his slide guitar. Muddy sang in a trombone-like baritone that was as true as his middle-aged stomach is flat...
...industry's second set of difficulties involves the increasingly tough demands of ecologists, who object to the effect of coal mining on both the air and the land. Leading coal producers are working hard in both areas. Scientists have already developed precipitators that can collect most fly ash inside furnace stacks, and they believe that a solution is in sight for the more serious problem of sulfur-oxide emissions. Another controversy is over strip mining, which accounts for a third of all U.S.-produced coal. In response to criticism of the desolate condition in which stripped areas are usually...
...huge plants' gases and soot will constitute much more pollution than New York or Los Angeles power plants now produce. Each day, according to environmentalists, the complex will emit 1,970 tons of poisonous sulfur dioxide, 1,280 tons of nitrogen oxides and 240 tons of fly ash. Obscuring the nation's clearest skies, the soot would cripple the region's astronomical observatories. Particles would also rain down on six national parks, three national recreation areas, and 28 national monuments-visited last year by 16 million people in search of pristine nature...
...expressions: an adamant sheriff in Lonely Are the Brave, a psychopathic killer in Charade, an ambulance chaser in The Fortune Cookie, the libidinous suburban husband in A Guide for the Married Man. Of late, his roles have yielded an amusing but unvarying character: the rumpled crank whose shpeesh shoundsh ash if it wash making itsh way around a shigar. Plaza Suite happily puts him in reverse. In Arthur Hiller's rigid transcription of Neil Simon's Broadway one-acters set in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Matthau essays not one part but three. Each is unique...