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...catch a man. I will never try to trick him." But Spivak will hold a guest's previous public statements against him if he seems to be waffling. "A man had better be prepared to justify or explain his changes of position," he says. Such grilling can exhaust its targets. George Meany, no stranger to rough-and-tumble public debate, once grumped: "A half-hour on that show can age you ten years." Spivak is also stern with the reporters who appear. At the cost of a certain spontaneity, questioners must speak in turn on his cue; Spivak hates...
Ever since the Clean Air Act was amended and toughened by Congress over their strenuous objections in 1970, automakers have argued loudly that the law's standards for exhaust emissions on '75 and '76 model cars will be all but impossible to meet. For all their efforts, they failed to make their plight quite believable to William D. Ruckelshaus. Earlier this year his Environmental Protection Agency summarily rejected the automakers' application for a delay in the deadline. Last week, in a major change of strategy, General Motors disclosed that its scientists were farther along in meeting...
Speaking to a meeting of the American Petroleum Institute, G.M. President Edward Cole said that on some experimental cars equipped with platinum-based catalytic converters, which reduce the pollutants spewed out in untreated exhaust by 90% or more, G.M. has been "able to meet emission levels for 1975 and 1976." While he insisted that G.M.'s prototypes are still a long way from being mass-producible equipment, Cole announced that the company has already begun to order some tooling, which suggests that officials feel the remaining bugs can be shaken out. G.M. has also arranged...
Having tipped G.M.'s hand, Cole proceeded to set a high ante for the other players. Since lead and two other elements used in most U.S. gasoline render platinum useless as an exhaust purifier, Cole said that they will have to be drastically reduced in fuel used by cars built after 1974. That, he warned, will have a "large impact" on the petroleum industry. As for the Government, said Cole, it may well have to compromise on its requirement that converters last 50,000 miles without maintenance. The farthest that G.M.'s prototypes have gone without trouble...
...their sausages with bird parts. Poultry is one of the more appetizing ingredients. Federal law allows hot dogs to contain such animal features as esophagi, ears, lips and snouts. In the words of Robert Benchley: "Ain't it offal?" And even these ingredients do not exhaust the bad news. Hot dogs are brimming with additives, including sodium nitrite, sodium acid pyrophosphate and glucona delta lactone. Without such chemicals, the hot dog would lose its pink blush and turn the color of unwashed sneakers. The wiener may also contain "binders," like dried milk, cereal or starchy vegetable flour. According...