Word: smog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic National Committee to veto the site-selection committee's choice of Los Angeles for the 1960 Democratic convention, they argued that 1) Los Angeles is expensively far away for most delegates, 2) the Pacific time zone would mean poorly programed telecasting to eastern audiences, 3) Los Angeles smog is too thick...
...Angeles by a top-heavy 71-35, after a three-hour debate at the National Committee's session in Washington. The victory was a handsome push for Adlai Stevenson, longtime ally and presidential choice of the liberal Ziffren-Butler team. And this, even more than space, time and smog, was what worried moderate Easterners and conservative Southerners most...
...land development companies he heads have been prime movers in the great California desert boom. Once a death trap to pioneers, the desert's rock and sand wastes, with their harsh beauty, dry, pollen-free air and brilliant sunsets, are a delight and a refuge to smog-smothered inhabitants of Los Angeles and other coastal cities. Developer Phillips operates on a simple principle: "You can't buy a poor piece of California land; you can only pay too much...
...damp midday gloom of London's worst fog in seven years, prostitutes were dimly visible as they patrolled their familiar stations in Soho, Piccadilly and Paddington. The chilling smog also seeped through tightly closed windows into the House of Commons, where Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler was opening the second reading of the Street Offences Bill, aimed at clearing those same girls off the sidewalks of London...
...like our weather?" a British newsman piped up as flashbulbs popped and dignitaries shook hands. Replied Vice President Richard Nixon, who with Wife Pat had arrived in London in a foul fog on a four-day good-will trip to Britain: "We have fog in San Francisco and smog in Los Angeles, so it's a lot like California weather." At once London's Daily Mail reported that Nixon had "managed to make everyone feel that he would have been deeply disappointed if it had been a clear...