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...products have captured 3% of the market. Says Hercules A. Segalas, a leading analyst of soap-industry stocks at William D. Witter, Inc.: "People figure they can't do much about most pollution. But buying phosphate-free detergents gives them the feeling that they are keeping the water cleaner...
...sulfur oxides, which he said are "among the most damaging air pollutants" and are "linked to increased incidence of diseases such as bronchitis and lung cancer." Nixon proposes a tax on coal-smoke emissions (main source: power plants), both to curb them and to fund research for developing cleaner fuels. It is doubtful that Congress will approve. Last year the House Ways and Means Committee squashed a similar tax on leaded gasoline, a measure that Nixon now seeks again...
Along with cleaner skies, the troubled industry has an added incentive: the new jet burners are far more efficient than polluting models, thus cutting fuel costs...
...unpredictable because of social and political uncertainties, several trends seem likely to occur. Consumers-and voters -will have an unprecedented amount of choice about how to spend their new wealth. A substantial part will probably be siphoned away by higher taxes, but those taxes could help to pay for cleaner air and water, improved medical care, better teachers, more reliable public transportation and new day-care centers for working mothers. Even so, the demand for luxury goods and services will probably soar. Millions of families will buy or rent more lavish homes and apartments, and load them with the latest...
...always very late, very cold and very dark. It is four in the morning, your logical processes are spent, your mind is wandering around like a vacuum cleaner picking up tiny balls of lint. Everything is inescapable. Every few seconds your brain hinges on some different nugget from the past. You would like to forget each and every one of them, but the pictures are too sharp and too terrifying to ignore. You are at once too tired and too aware to edit or sentimentalize your memory's scrapbook...