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...need for Congress to reconsider the federal law that sets the standards for auto-exhaust emissions [April 23] has been persuasively described by a committee of the National Academy of Science. We endorse that recommendation...
Like ephemeral puffs of exhaust, current commercial movies are exhaled by a sidetracked Hollywood locomotive caught in the cartoon loop of capitalist consumption. When we can gain sufficient distance to see ourselves in the Hollywood mirror, we may hopefully give due recognition to other filmic trains of thought which reflect light on the nature of film as perception, and cultural utterance. Brakhage, as a metaphor for the exploding, embryonic, experimental film ghetto of insight, is an opportunity for those interested in the potential and future for film to discover a most human vehicle of introduction...
TRANSPORTATION. In this sector, which now accounts for 25% of total U.S. energy use, the prime offender is the automobile. It not only operates inefficiently (using only about 20% of the energy potential in gasoline; the rest is thrown off in heat and exhaust), but also is used wastefully. The Office of Emergency Preparedness says that 54% of all trips are less than five miles-e.g., simply driving to the corner drugstore to buy a pack of cigarettes. Even on longer commutes to work, the average six-seat car contains only 1.4 people. To the dismay of Detroit, some...
...offices. Brother Maurice, who lives across the road from Daddy and Richard, is the chief mechanic of Petty Enterprises Inc.; First Cousin Dale Inman is the crew chief. The cars that the 35 Petty workers turn out are anything but stock. Everything from frames and brakes to transmissions and exhaust systems is handtooled. A team of four mechanics takes two weeks to build an engine, each one painstakingly tuned to meet the specific demands of different tracks. The end products are so prized that some professional drivers buy their stock cars from Petty. The going price: $30,000. Petty Enterprises...
Center of the debate is a complex device called a catalytic converter, an afterburner that cleanses exhaust of nearly all carbon monoxides and hydrocarbons. Auto engineers who banked nearly all their antipollution hopes on that device now claim that by 1975 it will still have major defects−including a marked tendency to conk out long before it has endured the legally required 50,000 miles of service. Furthermore, the engineers contend, auto companies have never before introduced such a complicated and bug-prone piece of equipment on every new car in a single year. Any attempt to force them...