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...many U.S. cities, blue skies are less common than they once were, and smarting eyes a chronic complaint. Air pollution is no respecter of size; more than 10,000 U.S. communities are afflicted to some degree. Most U.S. smog is of the eye-irritating "Los Angeles type," composed primarily of nitrous oxides and petroleum products loosely known as hydrocarbons, much of it traceable directly to automobile exhausts. Every day in the Los Angeles basin, more than 12,500 tons of pollutants are discharged (80% by autos) into the air-and without the city's severe industrial controls, the daily...
...their bodies with smog components. Natural exposure to smog has caused scarring in the lungs of laboratory animals, and inhalation of sulphur-dioxide fumes produces "airways resistance" (inhibited replenishment of the blood's oxygen supply) in both guinea pigs and humans. In London, where the word smog originated, chronic bronchitis-emphysema, an irreversible pulmonary disorder that can cause eventual heart failure, is now the third biggest killer (behind heart disease and cancer) of men over 45, and British doctors attribute its rapid rise to polluted air. Recent samplings of London smog have revealed dangerous concentrations (300 to 400 parts...
...private wealth is in flight, draining reserves from $1 billion in 1958 to $600 million now. Castro-imitating hotheads have scared off investors by demanding more government controls. Partly as a concession to the leftists, Betancourt has canceled new oil concessions and slashed rents 25%, shaking confidence still more. Chronic crisis-Betancourt's hands are only freshly healed from Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo's attempt last June to dynamite him to bits -further contributed to economic trouble...
...languorous natives how to make motion pictures-and money. Among the Barbarians. Producing the screen version of A Raisin in the Sun for Columbia Pictures. Susskind makes it clear to all Hollywood that he is an East Coast messiah. Tossing off remarks about filmland's Gomorrah atmosphere, its chronic fearfulness. its tendency "to run with the tide." he sits in self-imposed isolation at one end of the long table in Columbia's executive dining room and baits the mighty. At a recent lunch, he noted in a loud, salad-wilting voice that Eddie Fisher would be producing...
Howard in 1907 took over as general news manager of United Press, which had been formed by Scripps from three other news-gathering services. In less than five years, Howard was U.P.'s president. In 1922 Howard complained to Old Man Scripps that the Scripps newspapers had become chronic growlers instead of champions of the public interest. Scripps made Howard a partner in the chain, let him renovate the policy of the papers. In no time at all they became more determinedly "different"-but in the process lost much of the idealistic Scripps zeal...