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...Smog. Late last year, Miller pointed out, the Big E raced urgently from the U.S. East Coast to Viet Nam under orders "to maintain a speed in excess of 20 knots the entire 16,000-mile trip. This was accomplished with ease." With refueling delays, a conventional carrier could not have made the voyage at any such forced pace. One night, shortly after arriving in the war theater last December, the Enterprise was told that South Viet Nam's Cam Ranh Bay airfield had been made inoperable by rains, and that the carrier's planes were needed...
Another big asset is that the Enterprise has no smokestacks. On oil-burning carriers, acidic smog combined with salt-air corrosion necessitates ceaseless cleaning of aircraft and equipment. On the clinically antiseptic nuclear carrier, 15 to 20% fewer man-hours are required for corrosion control. The lack of stacks also gives the Big E space for an additional squadron in her "bird farm." On her second day in combat, the ship launched 134 sorties, more than any carrier had ever previously flown; it has since set a new record...
Drawing a deep breath, Los Angeles' Mayor Samuel Yorty intoned: "Smog, transit, taxes, education, dangerous drugs, judicial appointments, bank charges, saving and loan charters, law enforcement and other great areas of state concern must be divorced from shoddy machine politics." Though his mammoth city has headaches enough of its own, the mayor's indictment was aimed at the Democratic administration in Sacramento. Thus, after years of feuding with Governor Pat Brown, Sam Yorty announced last week that he would challenge him for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in June...
...megawatts for Grand Coulee). If one such station were built on Mount Wilson above Los Angeles, the heat produced as a byproduct could be guided into the atmosphere, raising the inversion layer that hangs over Los Angeles to 19,000 feet, thus ridding the city of smog. A sea breeze could be drawn into the space beneath, bringing rain that would transform the high desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas into a flowering land...
...right wing by declaring: "I am not going to submit a loyalty oath to anyone who votes for me." But Reagan, calling himself a "citizen-politician" and pushing the theme of a "creative society" for Cali fornia, also preaches that government must do something about problems like smog and unemployment, acknowledges that such programs as social security and medicare are here to stay. Anyway, as Reagan sees it, the main energies of California's Republicans need to be used come November "to retire Pat Brown," the deceptively bland Democratic Governor whose muscles seem to bulge mysteriously on Election...