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...built, and whatever their size, Ludwig ships have many interchangeable parts. This standardization has two profitable results: construction and maintenance are cheaper and captains and crews can take over any ship without finding it unfamiliar. Ludwig cuts design and construction costs to the bone. Many Ludwig ships have exhaust pipes instead of funnels, which cost more. Few, if any, have air conditioning, and none has the swimming pool for the crew that is common on ships owned by less parsimonious...
...rain. Last week Biophysicist William A. Curby offered another, more alarming answer at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. After sampling the air three times a day during the past two summers, Curby and his associates at Sias Laboratories in Brookline, Mass., discovered that auto exhaust and industrial fumes create a new atmospheric phenomenon-a layer of "dead sky" composed of tiny, concentrated particles. Unmoved by either wind or rain, the ever thickening mass of filth hovers over Boston-and presumably other cities. The stagnant cloud has a faint silver lining: while making Boston's rain...
...against dirty air, the Senate last week passed the most draconian bill in the new history of environmental politics. Sponsored by Maine's Edmund S. Muskie, the National Air Quality Standards Act of 1970 swept through the Senate without a single nay vote. The key target was automotive exhaust, the nation's chief air pollutant. But even Michigan's Robert Griffin, a staunch supporter of the auto industry, voiced only nominal protest and then voted for the bill. "Congratulations," said one Senator. "You've just gotten motherhood through...
...truck stop even for the big roads of the Midwest. Outside the Dixie, cattle on the way to market kicked the sides of their trailers, horses neighed, hogs squealed. Dust and diesel fumes mixed with the sweet prairie air and the scent of frying bacon spewing from the kitchen exhaust fans. On U.S. 66 in Illinois, the truck stops have names like Tiny's, the 66 Terminal Café, El Roy's, the Mill, the Fleetwood. They are the sort of place that serves Ann Page cherry pie with Sealtest ice cream heaped on plastic plates. With...
Despite Blanchard's BB-shot analogy, the fact remains that minute amounts of auto-exhaust lead, when added to the lead taken into the body from other sources, can cause serious injury and even death. Industrial wastes add lead to drinking water and children sometimes eat leaded paint peelings. Concentrations of only .8 parts per million can cause illness. Children are especially susceptible to lead poisoning because their toxicity level is only .6 p.p.m. Thus far, concentrations of .25 p.p.m. have been found in some residents of vehicle-clogged cities, where airborne lead is thickest. In New York City...