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...have not been able to prove a direct cause-and-effect relationship between air pollution and disease, they have found that the incidence of chronic bronchitis among British mailmen who deliver mail in areas with heavy air pollution is three times as high as among mailmen who work in cleaner regions. Researchers also know that there are more deaths from chronic pulmonary disease in high-pollution areas of Buffalo than in other neighborhoods. Boston policemen working around high concentrations of carbon monoxide seem more susceptible to the common cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecology: Menace in the Skies | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...trim in her Lycra stretch bra, kisses him goodbye, leaving only a trace of Revlon lipstick. In his Ford Taunus, or G.M. Opel, fueled with Esso gasoline, he drives to an office equipped with Remington typewriters, ITT telex machines and IBM computers. While his wife runs a Hoover vacuum cleaner, a Singer sewing machine and a Sunbeam iron, he confers with his American advertising agency and stops at a branch of First National City Bank of New York. If he sneezes in the wintry damp, he pulls out a Kleenex. If his boss needles him, he calms down with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE TECHNOLOGY GAP | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...most notable being that he plans to visit Europe and Latin America early in 1967. Back in Washington, he whittled down a stack of paper work. "Look at that desk!" he told Lady Bird and White House Aide Bill Moyers on the eve of the operation. "That's cleaner than it's been in three years." He corrected himself. "No, that's the desk I had in the Senate. It's cleaner than it's been in 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: With a Good Cough | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...much cleaner silverware," William Eckles, manager of the college dining halls, said yesterday...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: Room Cleaning, Now Silverware;--Anything Else? | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

...Webster's Third New Interna tional Dictionary, which sells for $47.50, the 13-volume Oxford English Dictionary, which was last updated in 1933 and costs $300, and the $47.50 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, mainly unchanged since 1913. Random House has a bigger, cleaner type face, includes names of notable places and people in its regular alphabetical word list, throws in such usable extras as a 64-page world atlas and a list of major dates. Most alluring of its extras are concise two-way subdictionaries of all commonplace words in Spanish, French, Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Language: Newest Dictionary | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

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