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...Oregon last week heeded the warning by scientists that some gases in aerosol sprays can destroy the ozone layer in the stratosphere that protects earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays (TIME, Oct. 7). The state legislature banned the sale after March 1, 1977, of aerosol cans that use chlorofluorocarbon compounds as propellants-mainly hair sprays, oven cleaners, insecticides and deodorants. Opponents of the measure claim that there is no hard evidence that the chlorofluorocarbons actually damage the ozone layer. But the Oregon lawmakers preferred not to wait for final proof, and the bill is expected...
...come to Los Angeles after a long career on the vaudeville circuit, now reduced to selling bogus cure-alls door-to-door to the indifferent and openly contemptuous rich. He is the compulsive actor, always "on", even in the midst of his death throes, only rarely exposing the layer of bitterness which rages underneath his act. Contemplating the reasons that he was never able to succeed in show business, he attributes his failures to the dominance of the industry by Jews...
...make music drumming on mailboxes and the sides of cars, or hitting an empty beer can with a wooden spoon. The glue that holds it all together is clave, a continuous 3/2 beat tapped out on a pair of hollow sticks. Musicians sprinkle percussive accents around the clave and layer complicated rhythms on top of it: bands like to get six or eight going simultaneously. But it is the continuous clave beat that starts feet moving, hands clapping, and prevents aural chaos...
...conference broke up then since Evert had "another day of tennis" on Wednesday and after you have played as much tennis as Chris Evert has, you would think of it that way also. Tomorrow meant, in the opening rounds anyway, a different pretty tennis outfit, another layer of makeup and maybe different colored fingernails, and possibly a cute curl on the right side just like today. One gets the feeling that it is all part of an act, and that she is performing more for the audience than to go out and win, especially since the first few opponents...
McElroy, Steven C. Wotsy, lecturer on Atmosphere Chemistry, and Yuk Ling Yung, a research fellow in Physics, have been conducting research on the ozone layer since 1970. McElroy said...