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...that can cause eventual heart failure, is now the third biggest killer (behind heart disease and cancer) of men over 45, and British doctors attribute its rapid rise to polluted air. Recent samplings of London smog have revealed dangerous concentrations (300 to 400 parts per million at auto exhaust-pipe level) of poisonous carbon monoxide in the city's air. Normal danger level: 100 parts per million, inhaled over an eight-hour period...
...basic dispute is the unions' demand to have exclusive rights to maintain and repair most of Pennsylvania's equipment, drastically limiting Pennsy's practice of farming out equipment for repair, and to take over the pipe work now done by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way members. Pennsylvania's President Allen J. Greenough refused to allow this, contends that this is a union jurisdictional dispute that does not concern the management. The unions also want a clause that would rigidly define each job and assure union members that they would not be called upon to work...
...fact that Brosnan wrote a book surprises no National Leaguer. Though he chews tobacco with the rest of the boys, Brosnan is one of the game's rarer types: he reads Rousseau and Nietzsche, puffs on a pipe, studies his fellows through owlish spectacles, and naturally is nicknamed "the Professor." He is fond of recalling how he once dumfounded a batter by declaring from the mound: "Us ne passeront...
...response to Phoumi's call a flurry of local army commanders hurried in to consult. Beating time to reedy pipe music as he presided over a table laden with Scotch whisky and French wines, Phoumi assured a reporter that his troops were racing the Pathet Lao Communists through the roadless jungle to the capital, added earnestly: "If you let the Pathet Lao into the government, they will organize and work hard and sooner or later they will control the whole country...
Throughout the shooting, Arthur Miller exhaled cones of reassuring pipe smoke and soothed his wife: "I like the wonderful gradation of mood . . . You got wonderful sex in there. A couple of looks -wonderful thing going with the eyes...