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...major polluter of U.S. air-a problem for which neither Washington nor Detroit has yet managed to find a solid solution. Short of reverting to the horse and buggy, the obvious answer is to develop a new propulsion system for automobiles that is as efficient as but less noxious than the internal-combustion engine. When the annual auto show opened in Manhattan last week, the Petersen Publishing Co. (Motor Trend, Hot Rod) gave visitors a look at a racy, wedge-shaped car that may signal just such a breakthrough in automotive design. Its source of power: steam...
...almost 1,000 gallons an hour spilled across the blue water for eleven days. It finally coated an area of at least 400 square miles and fouled 40 miles of incomparable beach front with acrid, tarlike slime. TIME Correspondent Robert Anson, flying over the despoiled sea, found the fumes noxious at 1,000 feet...
...When one of the peasants went down into the cesspool to shovel up the manure, he was overcome by the noxious (hydrogen sulfide) gas. Poor Peasant Liu Kung-chen and another peasant went down to rescue him, but by the time he had been pulled out, both of them had been overcome by the poisonous gas and had collapsed...
...noxious gas that swims in your earthly light --ancient Dutch hymn...
...students at Harvard to the generals in Washington. Judging by Col. Pell's statement that the proposal couldn't have pleased him more, the Committee has done well enough by the Pentagon. But the proposal completely ignores the aspects of ROTC which its opponents at Harvard find most noxious. Nothing is said about the units' free use of Harvard facilities, nor about the full professorships which Harvard grants to ROTC personnel. It must be assumed, therefore, that no change in these arrangements is contemplated...