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...solo crusade for a cleaner blue yonder, Guthrie routinely ordered mechanics to drain his holding tanks by hand before takeoffs. He says the process should take from three to five minutes. But Eastern told the mechanics not to obey him-"Each of our 3,700 pilots cannot make his own rules," said a company official-and flights were delayed by as much as 98 minutes until the captain got his way. The conflict of wills was resolved two weeks ago when the airline fired the veteran pilot...
...intervened again to accelerate the pace of evolution. Since the passage of smoke-control laws in the 1950s, England's landscape has begun to emerge from its layers of soot. The cleaner trees thus provide a lighter-and safer-resting place for any surviving speckled moths...
...only genuine indulgence?running Women's Wear. He was full of ideas when he first returned to New York City from France: he wanted to print the paper in several cities to speed distribution; he wanted to switch from the company's muddy old flatbed presses to cleaner offset printing; he wanted to use more color illustration. The family blocked the way. "They kept treating me like a snotty little brat who was running around with wild ideas that were going to ruin the business," he says. But after his father's retirement, John took over the company presidency...
...them off, and had their home phone disconnected when hoods started calling him to demand the rest of their payment. He and a friend sold phony ads for a nonexistent labor newspaper until the racket got too hot to handle; then Elliott took odd jobs?as a rug-cleaner salesman, a theatrical-school teacher, night elevator man in a residential hotel. Around this time, things seemed to pick up. He got a summer job in Hit the Deck, which led to a chorus job in Irma La Douce, which led to an audition for lead understudy...
...took most of the lead out, to help clean up the air," boasts an ad for Esso Big Plus gasoline. Another ad reads: "A new gasoline-non-leaded Shell of the Future. Part of Shell's drive for cleaner air." A third is headlined: "How do you pick the right gasoline to help fight pollution? Choose lead-free Amoco Super-Premium...