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Daily, 10,000 tons of chemical compounds-hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides-pour from 3.5 million exhaust pipes. When there is no breeze, and the exhaust-laden air is trapped in the mountain-rimmed Los Angeles basin, the bright Southern California sunshine, which could be expected to burn off a simple, old-fashioned fog, goes to work on the invisible gases until a giant photochemical reaction takes place. The pallid, evil-smelling vapor that results is known as smog...
...most hair-raising regattas ever held in the Charles River Basin, the Harvard sailing team qualified for the finals of the North American Dinghy Championship last Saturday and Sunday...
...references to Dean Sert's adherence to the "Mediterranean tradition" sounds terribly chauvinistic as reported by you. My point was ... that the honorable and very ancient tradition of the Mediterranean basin had influenced Sert, and that the choice of these materials, colors, and forms was therefore not an arbitrary act, designed merely to shock...
Prifty's second, a 300-foot air-mail delivery to left, might have been a long out. John Dockery got his hands on the wind-blown ball, but lost control when he ran into the swamp basin at the edge of the outfield...
...Yale on Saturday, Prince in the "A" division, and Dave Gantz and Ned Butler co-skippering in "B", finished third in the Sharpe Trophy Regatta and thus qualified for the dinghy finals to be held on the Charles River Basin...