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...Russia insist that the treaty would not restrict the peaceful development of atomic energy and that they would share any peaceful scientific fallout from their nuclear-weaponry programs. As with the Partial Test-Ban Treaty, France and Red China are not expected to sign the non-proliferation treaty. The Americans and Russians hope that they will be able to persuade the have-nots to put aside their hesitations and go along with the treaty, but expect that the job of persuasion will take at least to fall, when they hope that the United Nations will take up the question...
...could be studied. HEW would be given authority to designate industries that contribute heavily to pollution, and in each case would determine the maximum tolerable level of deleterious materials that they could generate. The department would also designate "regional airsheds" throughout the country, wherever there was serious pollution whose fallout area superseded state and local jurisdictions. In each such region, a commission consisting of two representatives of each state involved and one from HEW would be responsible for enforcing broad national standards and more detailed local rules...
...Heavy fallout of pollution particles in metropolitan areas deposits layers of grime on automobiles, clothing, buildings and windows; it adds about $600 per year in washing, cleaning, repairing and repainting bills to the budget of a family with two or three children in New York City, according to a study made by Irving Michelson, a consultant in environmental health and safety. Because of fly ash and soot from smokestacks, the main façade of Manhattan's New York Hilton was so badly discolored that it had to be replaced last year, only 31 years after the hotel...
...historians, they may ultimately credit their elders with a certain degree of prowess in staving off thermonuclear war, many pop-psych their growing pains in terms of the atom. "We're the Bomb Babies," says Los Angeles City College Student Ronald Allison, 23. "We grew up with fallout in our milk." The hyperbole may sound sentimental, but because of the Bomb, some Now People reach their teens feeling that they are trying to compress a lifetime into...
...thought," China exploded its fifth nuclear device last week at its Lop Nor test site in Sinkiang. As the Chinese press reported it, the test was "a heavy blow to the plot of U.S. imperialism and Soviet modern revisionism." A more objective analysis will have to wait until the fallout drifts into the hands of Western scientists...