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Pittsburgh's steel tycoons-having razed slums, banished smog, tamed rivers, and put up a great medical center-paused seven years ago to mull over the stagnant University of Pittsburgh. The verdict: Pitt was a "trolley-car school" saved from obscurity only by a renowned football team and a bizarre 42-story Gothic skyscraper called the Cathedral of Learning. To revive Pitt, the tycoons resolved to spend $100 million, and to get the job done they hired as chancellor Edward H. Litchfield, who predicted that Pitt would soon emerge as "one of the world's greatest institutions." Pitt...
Hollywood is forever traversing the world to make on-location pictures redolent of the sounds and smells of the atmosphere beneath the story. Now the tables have been turned. Playing at the Venice Film Festival last week to approving cheers was an Italian film called Smog, the first Italian feature film ever made on location in the U.S. Its message seems to be that people who live in glass houses are throwing their lives away, and the film itself throws quite a few rocks smack through the glassy eyes of Hollywood. It is about as focused as the rest...
...Angeles has been struggling for years against smog and a stigma of cultural inferiority. Only the smog remains. As a vote of confidence, Producer David Merrick will launch the long-awaited British musical Oliver at the Philharmonic Auditorium in August. And this year Playbill, which prints all Broadway programs, started a Los Angeles edition...
...most effect on urban populations that have been predisposed to the actions of pollen by such stimuli as auto exhaust fumes, chimney smoke and smog...
...much as $95 a month, without service. New York's subway system, which carries 4,600,000 passengers a day, often resembles something straight out of Dante's Inferno. A snowstorm that could be ignored or scoffed at elsewhere can paralyze a big city for days. Smog often covers Los Angeles, Chicago has its biting wind, and New York is covered by 525 million lbs. of soot each year. The stark anonymity of living in a big city crushes as many as it invigorates. Loneliness is a common malaise, and the bars are full...