Word: much
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pollution, so I wrote him. I wrote Ronald Reagan and I wrote Mayor Yorty. I wrote the airlines, the car manufacturers and J. Edgar Hoover. Sometimes I picket. We had a couple of breathe-ins downtown; we wore health masks into the county supervisors' offices. There isn't much time left. We make more smog, inside our houses, you know, from all those jet cans: beer cans, shaving cream, hair spray. I often wonder if there's any Communist payoffs behind the smog...
...barley. Dad an' me do most of the work, but we got two men who help us part time." One of the ranch hands materializes at his side like a movie extra and sharpens his knife on a pocket stone. It is 100° in the yard. "There's not much money in ranchin' around here," continues McCorry. "One trouble is the rain. In a year we don't get but ten, eleven inches. We get a lot of fires. A fire last year burned 9,000 acres around here. But we get green grass in November; it lasts till spring...
...changed California life are familiar in the other America ?though many first came to prominence in California. They include the hippie movement, the pop-drug culture, widespread sexual permissiveness, campus revolt and, since the Watts explosion in 1965, more virulent ghetto riots. They also include, in reaction to much of this, a political swing to the right. Not to mention pollution of all kinds and the resulting concern for salvaging the threatened environment...
...Institute: "The discovery of what we've got, and what we know it is possible to have, is greater in California than anywhere else. The difference between life on the beach at sunset and life in a freeway jam is so big that it makes awareness of the discrepancy much greater...
...thinkers and doers in this experimental human laboratory are immensely busy. Having created so much smog, they are bound to be the first in the alleviation of it, perhaps by perfecting the carbonfree auto engine, perhaps through more stringent traffic legislation. Little by little, they will assume firmer control over environmental deterioration by creating bigger units of government that can act on a regional rather than a local basis...