Word: smog
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...like our weather?" a British newsman piped up as flashbulbs popped and dignitaries shook hands. Replied Vice President Richard Nixon, who with Wife Pat had arrived in London in a foul fog on a four-day good-will trip to Britain: "We have fog in San Francisco and smog in Los Angeles, so it's a lot like California weather." At once London's Daily Mail reported that Nixon had "managed to make everyone feel that he would have been deeply disappointed if it had been a clear...
When Nathan Louis Gordon, 73, died of heart disease during one of Los Angeles' bouts with low-descending smog, Dr. Peter Veger stated on the certificate that the smog was "a significant condition contributing to death." (The connection: difficulty in breathing may overstrain a weakened heart.) Snapped County Coroner Theodore J. Curphey: "Los Angeles smog is not a disease. We would be opening the gates to litigation against the Board of Supervisors if we accepted such a certificate...
...Angeles courtroom was smog-filled and torrid. Off went the judge's coat. Off went the lawyers' coats. On stayed the clothes of the shapely plaintiff, Actress June Havoc, 41, and for a change, those of a key witness, her stripping sister Gypsy Rose Lee, 45, demure in a blue polka-dot dress. Cool and calm, June and Gypsy waited for the hearing to begin on June's complaint that she had been bilked in a real estate deal. But the smog won out, and the court was recessed. "In this kind of weather," said Gypsy, surveying...
...substance in polluted air, Dr. Stocks had no clue. In smoggy areas, the death rates were almost identical for light smokers (less than a pack a day) and nonsmokers. But among men who smoked more than a pack a day, the death rate rose, paradoxically, far faster in rural, smog-free areas. Explanation? Dr. Stocks had none...
...last of British wartime rationing, in effect since World War II began in 1939, will disappear next month: household coal, used in millions of living-room grates to add warmth, cheer and smog to the British winter, will henceforth be available without restriction...