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Tokyo followed New York's lead, and with good reason. During a five-day stretch last month, the world's largest city was nearly asphyxiated when exhaust fumes from its 2,000,000 cars were trapped overhead by a temperature inversion (TIME, Aug. 10). Autos were first kept...
It came with a vengeance. Not only was the weather sweltering-temperatures hovered around 90 degrees all week long-but there was also a temperature inversion. Like a lid on a jar, a stagnant upper layer of warm air kept heated air below from escaping. And what air! The city...
At week's end the immediate crisis seemed to have passed. President Nixon, commenting on the inversion, found a silver lining to the yellow-gray smog: "In some ways, it was perhaps fortunate that the East Coast saw the problem in such a massive manner," he said. "Now we...
JUST before I went to see Seneca's Oedipus last night, while I was having dinner, I heard about a fire that broke out early yesterday morning in the home of some friends of mine. Everybody made it out safely except for the cat, Porky, who was that rare animal...
Perhaps the CAP was a victim of its own rhetoric; promising too much, when the structures the local agencies sought to change represented the very fabric of American, life, Certainly, many CAP's suffered from an "inversion of purpose." The administrators of local, agencies became concerned with maintaining alliances which...