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...trapped in the mountain-rimmed Los Angeles basin, the bright Southern California sunshine, which could be expected to burn off a simple, old-fashioned fog, goes to work on the invisible gases until a giant photochemical reaction takes place. The pallid, evil-smelling vapor that results is known as smog...
...hydrocarbons from auto exhausts. All 1966 cars sold next year in California must be equipped with one of the approved devices; later they will probably be mandatory for old cars as well. The prices will be enough to bring tears to the eyes of California car owners even on smog-free days: factory-installed jobs will add up to $120 to the cost of a new car, while installation on used cars may run as much as $81.50. In addition, it will probably cost as much as $42.50 a year to keep the afterburners tuned up and functioning efficiently. Even...
...recently began issuing drivers' licenses, many battered Buicks and monstrous Mercedes of prewar vintage returned to the streets after years of exile in garages. Czechoslovakia's railroads, once among the best in Central Europe, today are the worst, and their coal-burning engines add to the gritty smog that cloaks the capital. In Prague's restaurants and bars, Scotch and French cognac sell for $2.50 an ounce. Tipping is simple: all waiters want is a few American cigarettes...
Only about half the students date frequently, usually on campus. Last year someone proposed a committee called SMOG (Students for More Outright Gaiety). It died aborning. Swarthmore is big on folk music and oldtime movies, short on sick fads like LSD. Swarthmoreans prefer quiet brooding. "The most casual-looking kids are going through the most intense self-examination," says one casual-looking coed...
Irazú's eruption is "dry," containing no molten lava. But the acrid, ashy smog has caused added suffering among those with respiratory ailments. The fallout extends over 250 square miles, including 97,000 acres of pasture for some of the prize dairy herds of Central America. Grazing land was smothered. Thousands of sick cattle had to be killed, and milk production has dropped to 35% of normal...