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NOISE POLLUTION. Congress approved a bill giving the federal Environmental Protection Agency two years to set new standards for major noise sources like motor vehicles and construction equipment. After a separate nine-month study, the EPA will recommend new aircraft- and airport-noise limits, which will be implemented by the Federal Aviation Administration. If signed by the President, the bill takes a giant step forward in the quest for quiet...
...Czech pharmaceutical officials, to cite an instance, want to buy American machinery for making plastic pill bottles. World Patent intends to export to Eastern Europe an American technique for cutting textiles by computer. Hayworth is also trying to find an American firm to use a Hungarian process for making motor oil that he claims "can clean an engine in 15 minutes...
...EARLY JULY, shortly before the Democratic Convention, Simon and Schuster published Julian Bond's first books. A Time to Act, subtitled. "The Movement in Politics," and sponsored as coming out party for the book at the White House Motor Inn in Atlanta. Twenty or so invited guests had already settled into the cocktails and hot and old hors d'oeuvres by the time Bond arrived, walking in on cat-lithe feet and wearing a vested blue suit. Just back from a trip politicking for George McGovern and about to leave on another. Bond made a relaxed beeline...
...four main pillars supporting the dome -each weighing 3,800 tons-have sunk almost an inch in the past three years, breaking two of the four tie beams between them. The mayor of Milan admitted that "the situation is not dramatic, though it is worrying." He has banned motor traffic from the huge and busy square in front of the cathedral, in effect closing the crossroads of the central city. The result has been the worst traffic snarls in Milanese memory...
Dunn also noted that students who register to vote in Cambridge, even if they claim an address elsewhere in the country, will be required to pay the Massachusetts state income tax and register any motor vehicle they might own in this state...