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...Department of Health, Education, and Welfare told manufacturers that, effective with 1968 models, all cars sold in the U.S. must be equipped with devices that will curb exhaust fumes, which pollute the air in almost every major U.S. city and are potentially a major killer. HEW hopes that its new regulations, which will cut out about half of the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon pollutants, will clear the air somewhat by the end of the decade, as new cars replace older smoky models...
...rest proved to be anything from lenticular clouds to runaway balloons, kites to jet-engine exhaust. At week's end the Air Force attributed the Ann Arbor and Hillsdale apparitions to marsh gas (methane) created by organic decomposition and ignited by combustion...
...Another petition has been drafted by the Student Council of the Divinity School. It urges the University to "exhaust all means" in Bowles's defense...
...look at what such architecture might be like is shown by Rudolph's own IBM building in East Fishkill, N.Y., where the middle floor is devoted to machinery whose intake and exhaust hoods grow out from beneath the cantilevered top story like heavy eyelids. In other office buildings, Rudolph has let ductwork swarm like vines over the fa?ade, set his stairwells out from the walls like turrets. And in his soon-to-be-completed Creative Arts Center at Colgate University, he has tried an even more daring scheme: he has turned the building inside...
...product. Le Corbusier, in his last buildings, was jutting monks' cells out into space, making air funnels into sculpturesque "light cannons." Britain's "New Brutalists" have made sinewy decoration out of external electrical conduits. Philadelphia Architect Louis Kahn has made feudal towers out of air intake and exhaust stacks. Today's architects, in making virtues out of plain necessities, may yet learn how to rival the medieval master masons who turned water spouts into sculpted gargoyles...