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...Southern California's much-touted sunshine is, ironically, an essential accomplice in making smog so irritating to the eyes and so dangerous to health. The assorted hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides spewed out by chimney stacks and tail pipes are bad enough in the raw. But sunlight sets up photochemical reactions involving such chemicals as ozone (a deadly poison) and nitrogen dioxide (an insidious and lethal gas when it hits the lungs). U.S. Public Health Service Toxicologist Sheldon Murphy neatly proved the perils of sunlight by exposing guinea pigs to city-street concentrations of exhausts. Unirradiated, the gases did little...
Much of the hesitation about employing a strong policy against Castro has been based on the fear of distressing repercussions in Latin America. Yet last week the Organization of American States, meeting in Washington, took little time to make up its mind. A smog of cigarette smoke clouded the wood-paneled room as delegates from 20 OAS nations heard the choice: approval or disapproval of the unilateral U.S. action on Cuba, and yes or no to a U.S. resolution calling for a united hemisphere stand to eliminate the threat of Communist offensive arms in Cuba...
...status is reflected in this joke: "Them pigs got into the corn," says Granny. Says Pa: "Did they drink much?" Oil was found on the hillbillies' land, and they have now moved to a Beverly Hills mansion, where they keep the porcine humor squealing: "What's a smog?" "A smog's a small hog." CBS's hour-long Fair Exchange is about an American family that trades teen-aged daughters with an English family. It is no bargain on either side...
...thriving business, the hero goes with her to a home she is about to buy, a hilltop viewmaster, 90% glass, with a huge swimming pool and theatrical lighting. "This is the last frontier," says the lawyer. Says the girl: "It's marvelous when there's no smog." It is clear that her life is just one long lungful of metaphysical smog. They go to a wild cocktail party full of space scientists, fags, wags, and a U.S. Senator who says, "Very nice talking with you" to close a conversation that consisted of two hellos...
Playing Themselves. Made last year by Director Franco Rossi (The Woman in the Painting), Smog, in his words, is the story of "the future borghese [bourgeois] headed for ultimate material prosperity. I foresee this soon in Italy, and I wanted to show where we are headed." Director Federico Fellini has foreseen pretty much the same thing, and Smog is a kind of ground-fog version of Fellini's La Dolce Vita. Like Fellini, Rossi weights his work with symbolism and tells his story in round after round of parties. Like Fellini, he used actual people playing themselves...