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Inevitably, as transit service declines and roads improve, more autos not only crowd the routes to town but choke the city streets as well. Chairman George L. DeMent of the Chicago Transit Authority understandably bemoans "the 5 o'clock shadow of smog, noise, tension and wasted time." Freeway tie-ups have multiplied to the point where airborne traffic spotters in at least 25 cities now broadcast advice about how to dodge them. Frequently, a new freeway built to carry 100,000 cars a day no sooner opens than it is inundated by twice that many. Besides, one mile...
Because of their shorter range and limited rate of acceleration, the new electric autos will probably be restricted to brief low-speed trips in metropolitan areas-where they are actually needed most to cut down on smog and street noise. For high-speed urban expressways and intercity highways, a Ford spokesman readily concedes, the more muscular internal-combustion engine "will be the most practical form of power for some time to come...
...established three new state universities and six colleges. He is responsible for naming six of the seven judges on the State Supreme Court, one of the U.S.'s most progressive benches. He created a state fair-employment practices commission, instituted the nation's first effective statewide smog-control program, increased welfare to needy aged people, hiked unemployment benefits and, in general, made imaginative appointments to state offices...
...nearly eight years in office. Governor Brown is saddled with the responsibility for all the crises, failures and frustrations that have beset the state during his tenure. Thousands of irritated, angry and frightened Californians are ready to blame Pat Brown personally for the rising crime rate, crowded schools. Watts, smog, even the drought that chronically plagues the southern half of the state...
...professional forester, I live and work among millions of trees. These, according to Professor Went [Sept. 9], produce an "incredibly toxic" blue haze. I have lived in Pittsburgh before smoke control. I have known gasoline smog in Southern California, and pulp mill smog in the north. I have endured wood "smog" in mill towns and near forest fires. Somehow, in spite of the "blue haze," the mountain air seems pure, refreshing and invigorating. The action of trees producing oxygen from carbon dioxide and water should outweigh any "arboreal pollution." All pollution should...