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Still upset by the 1969 Santa Barbara Channel blowout, which discharged 336,000 gallons of crude oil, Californians faced an even worse spill last week. This time two Standard Oil of California tankers collided in dense fog under Golden Gate Bridge and drifted helplessly into San Francisco Bay. With a 40-ft. gash in her hull, the Oregon Standard gushed 1,000,000 gallons of bunker fuel oil that soon coated beaches and wildlife sanctuaries for 50 miles of the coast. Some people were so incensed at Standard Oil that they hurled plastic bags full of oil at the company...
...however, thousands of more constructive citizens-hardhats, longhairs. soldiers, schoolchildren-joined in round-the-clock efforts to rescue birds and mop up beaches. Standard Oil rushed in big supplies of cleaning equipment. The Coast Guard launched an investigation. For one thing, most other shipping had been suspended during the fog, and the Standard tankers had no pilots. In addition state legislators introduced bills aimed at strengthening navigational and piloting safeguards in California's inland waters...
Unfortunately, the unexpected will often not allow itself to be controlled. One such unforeseen situation involved this year's football trip to Columbia, where due to an unexpected intense fog the team was not able to fly out of Logan at its prearranged Friday morning time...
Everywhere he went he was recognized. Marooned by a fog at London's Heathrow airport, he sat with his wife, who was catnapping, her head resting on his shoulder. But soon he was surrounded by a gaggle of American youngsters heading home from a skiing trip. They excitedly demanded autographs, and Senator Edmund Muskie happily complied. The lanky Democrat from Maine was also recognized by a London shop clerk when he stopped to buy a sweater, by tourists at Jerusalem's Shrine of the Book, and even by occupants of a kibbutz in the Negev...
London's Heathrow Airport was jammed for three days with 10,000 shivering passengers grounded by an icy fog. Stretches of the Danube froze over, trapping countless vessels. Drifts blocked approaches to the world's longest underpass, the Simplon twin railway tunnels between Switzerland and Italy. In France's Rhone Valley, some 15,000 vehicles on auto routes to the Riviera were snowbound in drifts as high as 10 ft. Some motorists were trapped for 72 hours in their cars, and two babies were born in the autos before their mothers could be rescued. Normally punctual French...