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Stiff federal controls on carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions, scheduled to take hold on 1975 model cars, have been a migraine for the automakers. But for Milton Rosenthal, a lawyer who is chief executive of Engelhard Minerals & Chemicals Corp., Washington's demand for cleaner air could produce a bonanza. Engelhard makes a catalytic converter-a steel cylinder containing a platinum-treated honeycomb structure-that changes some toxic gases into harmless substances. The converter, which costs less than $50, shows strong evidence of enabling the automakers to meet the Environmental Protection Agency standards...
...Meantime, the price of electricity will double (to 3.50 per kilowatt hour), reflecting higher fuel prices plus the cost of raising some $500 billion to build new power plants. As for the conflict caused by "contradictory public attitudes"-the expectation of "instant power" v. the concern for a cleaner environment-the FPC urged citizens not to underestimate the importance of maintaining adequate electricity supplies in a high-energy society...
...examples of the necessary parameters--it should be possible to keep the University out of moral potholes for nothing. Indeed, there is some justice in the argument that investing in companies like manufacturers of pollution control devices will increase returns, simply because the public's demand for a cleaner world translates itself into a growing demand for the goods and services such companies produce. The same argument in reverse holds that corporate malefactors will do some this-worldly penance thanks to expropriations, consumer boycotts and the like. Investors who held on to Kennecott Copper probably wish they had called...
...successful that he recorded 48 more and blue humor became his trademark. In one of his cleaner club routines, he is served a drink onstage by a pretty white waitress. "Oh, you're gorgeous, darlin'," he tells her, "but I don't want a white woman. No, I don't want a white woman. If I want a white woman, may the Lord strike me down with polio." Then his body goes out of joint, and he hobbles offstage. The records and a few "clean" appearances on TV eventually caught the eye of Las Vegas managers...
...fine art of hysterics, her portrayal of the secretary will match Henry Goodhue's affable characterization of her would-be seducer, the adventurer. Anyway, no one committed a capital offense Monday. And, in general, the production improves as the murders mount: with each passing corpse the blocking becomes cleaner and the pace intensifies...