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Ideally no board in the country would exhaust its pool of 1-A manpower or change the criteria it uses for classification before any other. A board, for example, with only 20 eligible registrants left who are not students should not be required to furnish more than 20 men until other boards are also forced to dip into their student population...
...unprecedented highway beautification bill that provides for withholding some federal road funds from states that tolerate unsightly billboards and unconcealed junkyards. The 89th also 1) authorized $240 million for new landscaping along certain federal highways, 2) set up federal regulations that by 1968 will limit atmospheric pollution from automotive exhaust pipes, and 3) approved a water-pollution control law that could lead to courtroom prosecution of industries or individuals responsible for fouling U.S. waters...
...brief out-of-town trip for the first time since the operation. Johnson conferred increasingly with officials. Dressed in a business suit with vest, he held his first ceremonial bill-signing session in the hospital. After putting his signature on a law requiring automobile manufacturers to meet new exhaust-control standards beginning with 1968 models, he delivered a little homily on the perils of air pollution and duly handed out the pens, bestowing two on Michigan's Senator Pat McNamara. "You passed so damn much legislation," explained Lyndon. "Take an extra pen home with...
...said that he had received a number of complaints about noise from cycles and that he himself had been "awakoned early in the morning and late at night by their exhaust sounds...
...talk turns to traffic, people love to speak bleakly of Gordian gluts that move like glaciers, of an ever-rising tide of blood on the roads, of a dark future in which cars multiply until they plate the nation's surface with two-ton steel locusts belching exhaust fumes that turn the sky shroud-grey. Any one man's traffic experience on a bad day can make it seem that the U.S. is well on its way to hell on wheels, that the nation faces an infinite problem. But a different experience, such as speeding through a rainy...