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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gasoline ads have generally ignored air pollution, concentrating on better mileage and higher performance for engines. Last week Standard Oil of California began to use pollution control as a promotional tool. It will market a variety of its Chevron gasoline that, it says, will help produce cleaner air. The gas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil: A Gas for Cleaner Air | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

U.S. officials, far from celebrating their victory, were negotiating an arrangement to prevent the free-market price from dropping below $35. They intended to do so by loosening up the U.S.-inspired boycott against South African gold. Under the boycott, central banks had bought hardly any South African gold; this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold: Fixing a Floor | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

At a secret meeting last week in Rome, South African Finance Minister Nicolaas Diedrichs and Paul Volcker, U.S. Treasury Under Secretary, framed a compromise. It would permit South Africa to sell a certain amount of new gold to the International Monetary Fund whenever the country's balance of payments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold: Fixing a Floor | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

In Jewison's The Russians Are Coming, Keith began a new career as a deadpan comedian. Now, teamed with Bridges, he gives the liveliest performance of his career as an agnostic Catholic and whoremaster-repentant whose right hand has not consulted his left for 40 years. The pro and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tarnished Cherub | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

About five billion pounds of detergents are now being used annually, said Reuss. On the average, each pound contains about 40% phosphate, which does a fine job of cleaning dishes and clothes. But once flushed down the drain, it begins its environmental dirty work. Reuss has introduced a bill that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Dirty Detergents? | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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