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...these products of combustion were not unpleasant or dangerous enough by themselves, some also undergo complicated chemical changes in the atmosphere that make them even less attractive. In the presence of sunlight, the hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides emitted largely by automobile exhausts react to produce the sort of brownish and irritating photochemical smog that blankets Los Angeles for most of the year. "Los Angeles smog" is a highly complex soup containing, among other things, nitrogen dioxide, hydrocarbons, ozone (a highly active and poisonous form of oxygen) and peroxyacyl nitrate (commonly called PAN). "London smog," on the other hand, usually contains...
Presdent Johnson has already received a copy of the letter with 22 signatures affixed. It was sent to the White House in late August, "as a courtesy measure." No one knows how he will react to a message with 5000 learned signatures...
...twoscore crowned heads listed in The Statesman's Year-Book fulfill a real function. In part, their significance is upheld by an old ally in a new guise: nationalism. The more closely peoples are brought together by high-speed communications and economic interdependence, the more they seem to react by turning inward to their national traditions. And to embody the sense of national integrity and unity when the going is tough, a king can do things that a President or a Prime Minister cannot...
...West Coast's rate is probably high because of the large number of people who move there after retirement and bring with them the increased suicide rale that goes with advancing years. Another factor is that the West Coast attracts the ambitious and restless who are inclined to react bitterly to failure. Some of the lowest suicide rates in the U.S. are in Mississippi and South Carolina, relatively static societies where even the poorest people tend to have roots and fixed status...
...been just a series of off-the-record decisions and refusals to answer critical arguments that has contributed to the tragedy that is Vietnam. Is it really such an awful shock that students will react with "unmannerly" and "impolite" demonstrations? Is it the bad manners of students demonstrators that has killed 6000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese? Or is it an Executive branch that, with as little open discussion as it can get away with, continues to drag a divided American people and a reluctant and brutalized Asian people into a larger war? ROBERT GINSBURG...