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...Rocks. The court's ruling cast a smog of gloom upon California. The state is currently using more than 5,000,000 acre-feet a year from the Colorado, and water needs are increasing relentlessly, so the 4.4 million quota seemed dismayingly skimpy. "If you order Scotch on the rocks in 1972," said Attorney General Stanley Mosk, "it may be really on the rocks...
Immediate Need. To an industry that has been stagnating in its own recession for at least two years, all this should have been cause for noisy celebration. But steelmen have had to pay the piper for premature celebrations before, and caution hung over the steel centers like smog. No one could be quite sure how much of the fresh demand was business hedging against the possibility of a strike when labor contracts reopen after April 30. Government steel analysts feel that this fall steel should be able to avoid another tumble like last year's, and hope...
...Eliot, 76, suffering from a bronchial attack brought on by London's recent heavy smog; Mamie Eisenhower, 66, with a touch of the flu, in Palm Desert, Calif., where she and Ike are spending the winter; Harry Truman, 78, "doing nicely" after an operation for hernia, in Kansas City's Research Hospital...
Londoners swathed their faces in "smog masks" of gauze, scarves or handkerchiefs. For a time, in fact, they looked somewhat like bandits fleeing the bobbies. Some were doing precisely that. Smash-and-grab robbers used the occasion to carry off thousands of pounds worth of loot from London's jewelers and banks. Scotland Yard's crack Flying Squad, reduced to a crawl, was virtually powerless to stop them...
Bundled to the dewlaps in white lynx and looking like the $1,000,000 she gets these days for a movie, Elizabeth Taylor, 30, arrived in London with Companion Richard Burton to brave the same sort of puree mongole smog that nearly did her in last year. While a phalanx of huskies kept photographers at bay, the Serpent of the Nile and Thames skittered into a blue...