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...British doctors attribute its rapid rise to polluted air. Recent samplings of London smog have revealed dangerous concentrations (300 to 400 parts per million at auto exhaust-pipe level) of poisonous carbon monoxide in the city's air. Normal danger level: 100 parts per million, inhaled over an eight-hour period...
...said: "Better show up here soon." When there were still only five Ministers for a Cabinet session, Kubitschek passed the word to all hooky players: "I'm accepting resignations." Back came the Cabinet-eight by week's end. Kubitschek pressured the Senate into returning May 16, ordered every Institute president to the capital within eight days, and decreed a full eight-hour working day for Brasilia's civil servants, who used to set their own hours. He added: "I want basic city services functioning within four months. I want to leave my successor a living capital...
...that Prince Juan Carlos was right, and the smart money was wrong. With a platoon of army generals and government ministers. Franco traveled 100 miles from Madrid to meet Pretender Don Juan at a hilltop castle in western Spain. It was their first meeting since 1954. Out of the eight-hour talk came a cautiously worded communique that all but named Don Juan as Franco's choice to take over when he is gone...
...blood pressure charts, on its head man's illnesses. Khrushchev had just spent two weeks in the tropical heat of Indonesia, where he had shown clear signs of weariness, and then had returned to wintry Moscow. But San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher, who carried on an eight-hour conversational joust with the 65-year-old Khrushchev at the Kremlin last week, came away saying that Khrushchev "looked as if he would like to go on for another eight hours." If and when Khrushchev's French trip was laid on again, it would undoubtedly be more modest...
...moves on to do battle with Collective Man. They square off and slug it out with slogans. Collective Man lands two left hooks: "The irresistible historical momentum of the workers' movement" and "the forward thrust of Soviet science." Business Man fights back with collective bargaining and the eight-hour day, follows up with everything from recovered space monkeys to the thinking man's filter. Momentarily victorious, he says: "Come back next week to see how I straighten out that troubled island of Cuba...