Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Similar "air shed" action is starting between some smog-bound states and is considered preferable to federally imposed air standards, which might not fit local climate conditions. Still, far greater federal action-especially money-is urgently needed to help cities build all kinds of waste-treating facilities. In fact, the Secretary of the Interior really ought to be the Secretary of the Environment. To unify federal leadership, he might well be given charge of the maze of rival federal agencies that now absurdly nibble only at their own slice of the pollution mess...
Sometimes pollution can even help recreation. In flat northeastern Illinois, for instance, the handsomest recreation area will soon be Du Page County's fast-rising 118-ft. hill and 65-acre lake-artfully built on garbage fill. One form of pollution could even enhance-rather than spoil-water sports. Much of the nation's coastline is too cold for swimming; if marine life can be protected, why not use nuclear plant heat to warm the water? Or even create underwater national parks for scuba campers...
...there, including columns shaped like so many free-form caryatids, received their baptism in the crypt of smaller Guell colony chapel, built on the city's outskirts. Says the American architect, Peter Harnden, who has been hired by Barcelona's Society of the Friends of Gaudi to help restore the building to Gaudi's original design: "It is a continuing surprise and delight to me, so rich in detail that I find something new each time I visit it." The recent discovery of a long-lost cache of Gaudi drawings in a factory shaft may enable Harnden...
...split will help ensure a lively market in its stock by keeping per-share prices within reach of ordinary investors. Lately, that reach had be come a stretch. Long the highest priced issue traded on the New York Stock Exchange, IBM in the past 20 months had swept from $320 to $677.50 by last week's meeting. Even after the split takes effect this week, IBM will still be competing for top-price honors with the Big Board's current second most expensive stock, Corning Glass Works, which closed last week...
Well aware that the U.S. trade plight may only strengthen the protectionist mood in Congress, 16 industrial countries* last week offered some extraordinary help. They volunteered to speed up a portion of their scheduled Kennedy Round tariff cuts while allowing the U.S. to delay its own cuts. This tariff advantage would give the U.S. trade balance a lift through 1969 estimated at $300 million...