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...time for man to realize that he is a chemical being. (The time has come now because things are getting out of man's conscious control--or rather, too much under his unknowing and accidental control. Automobile exhaust, Nytol, and the sheer noise of the subways are making man into what he feels like without his realizing...
...colonial church) have been transformed into grimy liquor stores, Western Auto discount stores, small grocery stores. The center of town is surround by gas stations. And in the dead center of the main square is a deserted and forlorn bandstand, its white wooden sides smudged with dirt and exhaust, its green platform sagging at the middle...
...that Hanoi breaks off the peace talks in Paris. He must continue preparing the South Vietnamese to assume more responsibility, but not undercut them by bargaining with the North behind their backs. He must allow the Saigon government to negotiate as an equal partner, but not permit it to exhaust U.S. public patience by foot dragging. In all this, an essential element is the reliability of the South Vietnamese government and the man who runs it, President Nguyen Van Thieu...
...most dangerous potential fault was found in 2.4 million Chevrolets built between 1965 and 1968. Lethal fumes from damaged or aged exhaust pipes have, in a few models, seeped into passenger compartments through opened seams and defective plugs in the underside. There have been 30 reported cases of such leakages, and carbon monoxide was blamed for four deaths in Chevrolet Impalas. Another possible danger in some 20 models is a plastic cam, used to regulate the engine's idle speed, that has at times broken and dropped into the throttle linkage, jamming the accelerator and making it difficult...
...million. Much of all this might have been avoided had the company listened to Edward A. Gregory back in 1965. Gregory, then an inspector at the Fisher Body St. Louis plant, filed four reports that poor sealing in the rear-quarter panel of Chevrolet car bodies permitted seepage of exhaust fumes...