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Blow-by devices fight smog by piping the smog-making gases that collect in the crankcase back through the intake manifold to be burned in the cylinders. To ease the eye sting in Los Angeles, the nation's smog capital, Detroit last year equipped all new cars to be sold in California with a blow-by device made by General Motors' A.C. Spark Plug Division. G.M.'s blow-by, which is the only one approved so far by California's Air Pollution Control Board, added from $4.50 to $6.50 to the price...
...reasons are manifold, and the process has been gradual, a function of both the U.S.'s long social conscience and its incredibly productive economy. Thanks to better medical care, there are fewer orphans today. Few mothers die in childbirth; fathers live longer. Even if the father dies, social security payments enable a mother to keep her children with her. Furthermore, almost any average childless couple that wants a child can afford one. Result: more couples clamoring for babies than there are babies to adopt-and the highest rate of adoption of any nation in the world...
...resolve them with little effort, or with sporadic effort? If we have 10,000 people in the Pentagon, and in such organizations as the Rand Corporation, devoting their minds to problems of defense, should we not have at least, a thousand working in and out of Government on the manifold problems of the maintenance of peace...
...White House steps the smiling, bareheaded Prime Minister was greeted by a smiling, bareheaded President. First in Kennedy's west-wing office and then over lunch, the two heads of state ranged through the world's manifold crises, lingering longest over Canadian-U.S. problems. Anxious to counteract the impression left by Canadians who argue that their nation should opt out of joint air defense with the U.S., Diefenbaker assured Kennedy that Canada "has not the slightest intention of being neutralist" and intends to remain an active military partner...
...earning a Harvard Ph.D. in English when he met the late great Microbiologist Hans Zinsser. Inspired by Zinsser, Enders switched to bacteriology. But inspiration, he insists, has little place in the practical results of research. "As a rule, the scientist takes off from the manifold observations of his predecessors . . . The one who places the last stone and steps across to the terra firma of accomplished discovery gets all the credit." Thus Dr. Jonas Salk got most of the credit for developing polio vaccine. But it was Enders' patient work that first demonstrated how to grow the dangerous polio virus...