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...Munich's 16-day autumnal beer bust, the Oktoberfest. Then, geared in blue velvet and leather harnesses, they will take up their old station in the Gabelsbergerstrasse and trot out daily to the festival grounds with wagons bearing garlanded but empty wooden kegs. At the same time, fume-belching trucks will deliver the real stuff in aluminum barrels...
...unmeetable twain have been getting together with a vengeance in Bangkok. The American presence meant money and automobiles; automobiles meant roads. So the exotic "Venice of the East" filled in most of its famed canals and turned itself into a miniature Oriental Los Angelescomplete with fume-spewing, bumper-to-bumper thrombosis. To the rescue last week, during a two-day official visit to Bangkok, came U.S. Secretary of Transportation John Volpe. His prescription, typical of the inscrutable West: fill in the few remaining canals and add express buses...
...state board. One lesson: the need for sensible national antipollution standards to keep states from lowering their own standards when competing for industry. Another: many of Vermont's new laws, while too vague in some respects, are also too weak. Air-pollution offenses are measured visually against a fume-color chart that hardly applies to nighttime emissions. The laws controlling water pollution fail to set precise standards of water quality and thus cannot be enforced...
...Eskimo. Randall and Klugman also lose battles. They were embarrassed by the third segment in the series, which lost bits of subtle humor to give more time to a leering portrayal of Oscar hustling an airline stewardess. The actors condemn the use of canned laughter as "an atrocity" and fume at the network's excision of the characters' children from the story. Randall complains that "ABC Standards & Practices says that divorced people don't have children. In the play, the fact that the men had children placed the beam of heartbreak under the structure...
Most of the smog that shrouds U.S. cities is belched by the internal combustion engine. The surest solution would be to ban all cars from cities -a proposal that actually passed the California state senate in July before it was killed in a house committee. Another is to build fume-free auto engines run by electricity or even nuclear power. But none of this is likely to delight Detroit automakers or the politically potent oil industry. Is there any compromise solution...