Word: foul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Citizens for Clean Air welcomes TIME'S clear view of dirty air [Jan. 27]. Your cover story helps with the hard task of focusing attention on the need for pollution solution. This has been a major problem in New York, trying to keep "fun city" from becoming "foul city." At last in New York we have seen the beginning of consumer demand for cleaner air, leading to new initiatives by the mayor, his imaginative commissioner of air pol lution control, and business leaders. DAVID SHEFRIN Chairman Citizens for Clean Air, Inc. Manhattan Sir: Whenever the cost of cleaner...
...widely publicized New York and Los Angeles air-pollution alerts and open bickering between politicians and industry over pollution controls, have made the U.S. suddenly aware that smog is a real and present danger. The belching smokestacks that long symbolized prosperity have now become a source of irritation; the foul air that had come to be accepted as an inevitable part of city living has suddenly become intolerable. "Tomorrow morning when you get up," reads a recent magazine ad placed by New York's Citizens for Clean Air, Inc., "take a nice deep breath. It'll make...
...effectively filter pollutant particles out of the air, the troublesome gaseous contaminants pass through unhindered. Thus city dwellers who feel that they have found sanctuary from the smog in sealed and air conditioned offices and apartments are actually in an atmosphere that may be little better than the foul air of the streets...
...Urged New York and New Jersey to adopt more stringent controls over what one HEW official described as "the worst, most critical" air pollution in the U.S. The air is so foul, said a Public Health Service official, that "if it were subject to the pure food and drug laws, it would be illegal to ship it interstate because it's unfit for human consumption." Or for anything else, in fact: a study showed that Cleopatra's Needle, a stone obelisk in Manhattan's Central Park...
...managed a halftime tie on a strange play. Dartmouth's Gunnar Malm went up for a shot, but was stuffed by the Crimson's Paul Waickowski. This upset Malm immensely, and he chose to say something improper about the noncall to the referee. Dartmouth was charged with a technical foul, and Royer sunk the tying point...