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...nation smothered by the blue-silver smog of television Vaughn is a celebrity. No Progressive Labor spokesman could be more appealing to construction workers, taxi cab drivers and unemployed factory hands than the glamorous man from U.N.C.L.E. William Fulbright can't compete with him for the attention of middle class clerks and housewives. He is very much aware of the possibilities created by his star status, and he has chosen to utilize them for the benefit of the anti-war cause. "Everyone doesn't have the podium I have to speak from," he says. "My audiences may come...
...April Fools' Day, when China Airlines' new Boeing 727 climbed into the early morning smog that blanketed Taipei's Sung Shan Airport, 14 paying passengers were scattered among the craft's 108 seats. C.A.L.'s management was understandably distressed: it was the inaugural jet flight for the little airline, which is just beginning to make a bid for one of the world's most lucrative routes-from Taipei up to Osaka, Tokyo and back, then a Taipei-Hong Kong round trip. By last week, business had begun to perk up, and China Air kicked...
...smog-control law was enacted, requiring individual counties to take action but also giving the state power to step in if nothing is done at the local level. A long-needed reform centralized the state's fragmented, inefficient purchasing system. Plans are in the works to revamp the scandal-ridden Liquor Control Board, stripping it of its responsibility for narcotics control. In the traditionally delicate area of ethics, some tough new regulations were enacted, including one that bars a legislator and any of his family from doing business with the state...
...white carpeting and white Naugahyde upholstering. A onetime U.S. Army pilot who is now a traffic watcher for radio station WXYZ, Stutesman is one of a growing tribe of hardy newsmen (and women) who hop into a Cessna or helicopter in the early-dawn hours, brave snow, fog and smog to report the traffic below and watch for fastbreaking news stories like fires and explosions...
While San Francisco (pop. 750,000) planted seeds of growth, New York City (pop. 7,500,000) showed symptoms of shrinkage. Though the city is beefing up its effort to attract new industries, it drives old ones away by reason of costs and congestion, smog and stickups, traffic and taxes that rise in a wry ratio with strikes and relief rolls. Over the last decade, companies have followed the flood of families to suburbia's fresher air and greener acres, draining the city of 17,000 industrial jobs a year. And so far this year, the exodus has continued...