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...take tentative and sometimes faltering steps in the same direction. To reduce New York City's dirty smog, some 50% of which comes from chimneys, smokestacks and open fires (compared with only 10% of Los Angeles' smog), a regulation has recently been passed to limit the sulphur content of fuel burned within the city. It came none too soon; the U.S. Public Health Service describes the sulphur-dioxide concentrations in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area as "the worst, the most critical...
...force local steel plants to adopt costly antipollution techniques, and transportation officials are investigating combination diesel-electric buses that would reduce ex haust fumes. An Illinois legislator has gone so far as to introduce a bill that would limit the use of Illinois coal-which has a high sulphur content-in public buildings...
...missing as the Yugoslav Central Committee met last week in Belgrade's ornate, 19th century Parliament Hall. For the first time since World War II, President Josip Broz Tito was not present to call the tune. He was relaxing at his island hideaway of Brioni, fully content to let his lieutenants transact what business there was. Tito's absence-and his confidence-were symbolic of the country's new relaxation. Yugoslav Communism is evolving toward a less dictatorial-if still far from democratic-form of government...
...which he takes an occasional potshot when he is in a hunting mood. Hjalmar himself is a dilettantish portrait photographer whose wife manages the business while he nurses the mirage that he is on the threshold of a world-shaking scientific discovery. The little girl (Jennifer Harmon) is content merely to love her supposed father and her pet wild duck...
...franc gold piece known as the Napoleon-and when the market opened last week, an unprecedented buying spree sent the Napoleon's price soaring to its highest level in 15 years. At 50.4 francs ($10.29), the coin was selling for a whopping 57% more than its gold content is worth at official world prices...