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...with carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, lead compounds, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, fly ash, asbestos particulates and countless other noxious substances. The Apollo 10 astronauts could see Los Angeles as a cancerous smudge from 25,000 miles in outer space. Airline pilots say that whisky-brown miasmas, visible from 70 miles, shroud almost every U.S. city, including remote towns like Missoula in Montana's "big sky" country. What most Americans now breathe is closer to ambient filth than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fighting to Save the Earth from Man | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...Puts the wretch that lies in woe! In remembrance of a shroud...

Author: By Frederic C. Bartter jr., | Title: Shakespeare and the RSC | 11/24/1969 | See Source »

...doom: Monoxide cloud shall be thy shroud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecology: America the Befouled | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...movie sequences was an astronaut's-eye view of reentry, looking up through a window while the spacecraft plunged through the atmosphere, blunt end down. An orange-yellow glow filled the window as the heat shield became incandescent. Fiery chunks torn from the shield hurtled past the window. Shroud lines could be seen whipping in the wind, and viewers could almost feel the jerk as the or-ange-and-white main chutes opened, abruptly slowing the descent. The scene ended with the sky and clouds gyrating sickeningly, and the colorful chutes appearing and disappearing in the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Photography at New Heights | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

Black students occupying Ford Hall at Brandeis have charged that President Morris B. Abram "has lied, has dealt in half truths and put on a false front to shroud the entire issue in rumors and phony rhetoric...

Author: By James C. Kitch, | Title: Blacks Criticize Abram; Defend Brandeis Seizure | 1/15/1969 | See Source »

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