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Untold adventure awaits him. He is the man who will land on the moon, cure cancer and the common cold, lay out blight-proof, smog-free cities, enrich the underdeveloped world and, no doubt, write finis to poverty...
BEAZLE: Oh, if only I could believe that! Smog, confuse, obfuscate...
...consider exile across the Hudson because of an increased stock-transfer tax. His cherished civilian-controlled board to review complaints against the police was ignominiously defeated 2 to 1 at the polls in November. Even nature seemed to be conspiring against him last month when a canopy of poisonous smog mantled the city for three days...
Belated Sweep. Temperatures climbed -Manhattan experienced a record 64° -as the bowl of stagnant air roofed the region. A scattering of New York hospitals reported an increase in lung-ailment complaints. Finally, with weather forecasts indicating no relief, officials called a first-stage smog alert* in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut...
Revenge. The scare, in its way, was nature's revenge for man's abuse of his environment. Few areas of the U.S. are free from air pollution. Damage to American property is estimated at $11 billion in the 7,300 American communities plagued by smog. Though New York and a handful of other communities have started anti-pollution programs in recent years, few begin to compare with the tough program of Los Angeles, which-despite its reputation as smog capital of the U.S.-has kept its air breathable by prohibiting all coal fires, allowing oil burning only five...