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...Angeles, California's smog capital, has been trying for years to get rid of its trapped pollution. Since 1957, the state Air Pollution Control District has prohibited the 1,500,000 backyard rubbish burners that produced 600 tons of acrid smoke a day. It extinguished dump fires, went after smoking factory chimneys, enforced a stiff set of regulations that kept oil refineries from letting more than a trickle of smoke and fumes escape into the air. These measures did some good. For one thing, they changed the color and character of the smog. Los Angeles smog is still maddeningly...
...home may be his castle, but if he riles the neighbors, they may have a lot more say about the place than he does. William M. Phillips, feature editor of the Miami Herald, learned that expensive lesson when he decided to install a railroad caboose in his backyard. Phillips' family had outgrown his one-bedroom house, and he needed cheap, additional living space for his three children. What he got was a blizzard of bills that have now hit $10,000 and an endless zoning suit that has become the longest in the history of Florida's Dade...
...many of the major developments of motion picture animation since the Thirties. At the Disney studio during its most creative period, Hubley drew the "Rites of Spring" sequence for Fantasia. After the war he supervised production of the UPA greats, including Tell-tale Heart and In Henry's Backyard, as well as McGoo and McBoing-boing. And he has pioneered the development of cell "animage" techniques for graphically rendering human motion and spatial depth...
They taxied not in a taxi, though, but in the Cessna 170 they keep in the backyard hangar. The neighbors find nothing odd about that. They have airplanes in their backyards...
...couple of Republican Congressmen, Nebraska's David Martin and Kentucky's Gene Snyder, journeyed South and returned with a tale of dire poverty in Lyndon's own backyard-or, more precisely, Lady Bird's. In Alabama's Autauga County, Lady Bird owns about 3,000 acres of land that she inherited from her family. Much of the land, once cotton-producing, has been turned to timber, but four Negro tenant families still live on some of the property, occupying rundown houses that do more than Lyndon Johnson's words to dramatize poverty...