Word: smog
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...decided to forsake his kingmaker's role and run for public office himself. He was elected mayor of Pittsburgh and became the only official ever to hold that office four consecutive terms. Under his aegis, the city went through a renaissance. Slums were razed, expressways were built, steelmill smog was thinned out by tough anti-pollution laws, and the city's Golden Triangle-a symbol of enlightened urban renewal-rose downtown...
...third day, pollution levels in New York hovered dangerously above normal. Philadelphia had measurements of ten-the highest its scales record: Boston reported cottony clouds of smog; Baltimore was dimmed...
From Boston to Baltimore, smog's grey, grimy pall settled in for three days and nights, frightening residents with the specter of killer fogs such as those that had claimed up to 4,000 lives in London in 1952 and 240 in New York a year later. All the elements for another lethal siege were at hand...
...even a shipment of California smog had arrived on the prevailing westerlies, and Baltimore Mayor Theodore McKeldin, 66, might have been tempted to think that Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, 57, was a welsher. Hadn't McKeldin bet Yorty a barrel of Chesapeake oysters against some comparably juicy California product that the Orioles would beat the Dodgers in the Series? And hadn't the Birds walloped the Bums in four straight? Well, yes, squirmed Yorty, but he hadn't really accepted the wager: "Under local law I could not bet." Nonetheless, Yorty informed reporters, "I am sending...
...fearsome winds can also have beneficial results. In Canada, chinooks sometimes produce refreshing, springlike thaws in the midst of long, sub-zero winters. They often melt enough snow to allow deer and cattle to forage for food on the uncovered ground. In Los Angeles last week, as the smog was temporarily displaced by dry, clear air, residents out for an evening walk could look up to see an unfamiliar and refreshing sight: the stars...