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...between "unhealthy" and "unsatisfactory." SO2 levels hit .23 parts per million parts of air at some points around the city, compared with the federal emissions standard of .1 ppm. Result: many New Yorkers complained of smarting eyes and sore throats. "New York is like a pickle in its own brine," wheezed a bedraggled typist. A secretary put it another way: "When I came to work, I felt like I should take out my whole respiratory system and wash it." But strangely enough, neither hospitals nor doctors reported unusual numbers of patients. The favorite prescription: "Get out of town...
Written by Contributing Editor Ruth Brine, and reported by both Ruth and Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, the story was edited by Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson and researched by Virginia Adams. The idea was conceived when Ruth Brine moved to Manhattan's Upper West Side last fall. "I saw those rows and rows of motionless old people sitting all day long on the benches on the smelly traffic island that stretches all the way up Broadway," she recalls. "I also began to be aware that my friends were spending as much time discussing what to do about their parents...
...whose voice, while comparatively muted until now, promises to grow much louder in the months to come: the militant new feminists of the Women's Liberation movement, who regard themselves as one of the most discriminated-against groups in American life today. The story was written by Ruth Brine, who was valedictorian of her class at West High School in Waterloo. Iowa, a Phi Beta Kappa and editor of the literary magazine at Vassar, and took a master's degree in journalism from Columbia. "Then, as any feminist could foresee," says Ruth, "I came to work for TIME...
...moldy. To make sure that the mold develops, some Koreans buy a pure culture and spread it on their loaves. By early spring, a furry black or gray growth covers the mash. The Koreans scrape off this "exuberant fungus," as Seel described it, and soak the loaves in brine for a month. Then they pour off the black liquid, which is soy sauce, and make the debris left in the crock into a stiff soya paste. Some Koreans eat little of the paste, but others indulge at the rate of five ounces or more...
...Frankie Avalon "Bobbysox to Stockings" tradition, I went to Brine's in Harvard Square and picked up my first pair of Adidas running shoes, the $13.50 variety, to replace my P.F. Flyers. Immediately, I went out and ran four miles in the stiff new shoes and had a new set of blisters...