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...cause of the disease traced to smog. "Photosynthesis is inhibited almost immediately," says Paul Miller, a plant pathologist with the Forest Service at Riverside. In controlled experiments, smog concentrations of as little as .15 ppm. caused a 20% inhibition of photosynthesis within 60 days. The reality is grimmer. On hot summer days, the smog level in the San Bernardino forest can reach .5 ppm. The average is .20 to .25 - enough to reduce photosynthesis by 66% . In turn, this impedes the flow of protective pitch with in the tree, allowing pests to attack its trunk with near impunity...
...nation's usually faceless financiers, Bank of America Chairman Louis B. Lundborg, may not rank historically with Martin Luther's challenge at the Diet of Worms: "Here I stand-I cannot do otherwise, God help me." It does indicate, however, that society is growing grimmer as it confronts youthful radicals and rioting students. The bank's $275,000 Isla Vista branch was burned to the ground last month during a rampage that began on the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California. Bank officials fear that they may smell smoke again. Nonetheless, they decided...
Communication Gap. Too many mothers still believe that measles is one of those unavoidable childhood diseases that disappear after seven days of spots and fever. The facts are grimmer. Before the development of the vaccine, almost 4,000,000 children caught measles every year. Thousands of them came down with encephalitis and other serious complications. Some were severely retarded as a result of brain damage, and one out of every 1,000 died...
Haven't things been happening in Viet Nam?" At the same time, acknowledging that the situation was grimmer than he had anticipated, Gowon increased relief funds from $17 million to $45 million. He also agreed to accept additional assistance from other nations-with the proviso that Nigeria continue to direct all operations. The U.S., which had already dispatched three portable hospitals and 26 Jeeps, also promised a fleet of relief planes, portable generators, blankets and hospital lamps. Britain sent 25 doctors and 50 nurses; Russia supplied the lead contingent of what will be a 60-doctor party. Remembering Friends...
...highly subjective shutter shows Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski in a bare-chested embrace, looking like an older, less innocent reincarnation of Romeo and Juliet. Candice Bergen poses as though she belongs on the prow of a ship-and says that she "can't think of anything grimmer than being an ageing actress; god, it's worse than being an ageing homosexual." Rudolf Nureyev romps with Cecil Beaton; Jeanne Moreau presses her fingers nervously to her mouth; Malcolm Muggeridge scowls in fearsome closeup. And Fashion Designer Douglas Hayward remarks: "Everyone is so insecure . . . what can a Rolling Stone...