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...Chicago doctors criticized the aerosol bronchial sprays that asthma sufferers, among others, increasingly use to help open constricted bronchial passages. After a detailed study, Drs. George Taylor and Willard Harris reported that some sprays produced abnormal heart rhythms in mice, rats and dogs. They also warned that Freon-the heavier-than-air gas used as a propellant in many of the bronchial nebulizers-is absorbed into the blood through the lungs and affects the heart. This may be responsible for the rising death rate among spray users during the past ten years. Published reports show more than 50 unexpected deaths...
...plead that they must build more power plants to meet the increased need. Conservationists stress that more power plants will increasingly foul the already poisonous air. Partly because of the bad city air, architects design buildings with windows permanently closed. Thus massive air-conditioning systems must dangerously draw ever heavier loads of power-without, however, filtering out most of the pollutants. Unless the course along such a double helix of progressively contradictory demands is reversed, high-energy civilizations could find themselves literally in a dark...
Kane County police believe that the Fox may be more than one man-possibly, says Detective Sergeant Robert Kollwelter, "a group of antipollution nuts." In fact, the Fox admits that he needs the help of family and friends for some of his heavier jobs. "They're all good working people," says he, "not long-haired hippies." For as long as he and his accomplices can evade the law, the Fox intends to continue his nocturnal raids. Says he: "I'm just out to stop things that are illegal in the first place...
...more strongly into the medium-priced market. In January, the 1,150 Volkswagen dealers in the U.S. will put on sale a new sedan listed at $2,959. Called the 411, it is slightly more than 20 in. longer than the 158.6-in. standard beetle, and wider and much heavier. When the 411 was introduced in Europe in 1968, critics complained that its 68-h.p. engine was not powerful enough to haul the car's weight and that the 411's interior was not well insulated against engine noise. VW states that the newest model, with...
...According to London's Human Biomechanics Laboratory, which recently tested Margaret, her arms are indeed a good 3 in. to 4 in. longer than those of the average woman tested. At 5 ft. 9 in. and 155 lbs., she is not only 2 in. taller and 13 lbs. heavier than Rosewall, but she exerts an astounding force of 121¼ lbs. in her right hand, which equaled or surpassed that of the men tested...