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...America. Only New Orleans' Superdome, completed last year, cost more ($173 million); Seattle's "Kingdome," which opened this month, was a mere $60 million. Of course, teams domiciled in these weatherproof bubbles never have to worry about slipping in the rain, losing fly balls in the smog, getting grass stains on their pants or suffering other terrestrial indignities...
...three telescopes at the Observatory are survivors of that same past era of the amateur. All are now obsolete, or rapidly becoming so. The smog and city lights make serious observing impossible in Cambridge. The gap between Cambridge and the stars widens both ways, unintentionally but inevitably...
...Reagan refused-for now-to let his candidacy expire. From his Pacific Palisades aerie overlooking smog-bound Los Angeles, he claimed that "we appear to have met our goal." For 1976's hard-pressed Gipper, 40% constitutes a victory. Next day he jetted to North Carolina for five days of campaigning in a feverish run to overcome Ford's lead among the Tarheels...
Others are less abrupt about making such geographical leaps; their urban grievances simply accumulate like a lowering smog, until one day they call the moving van. Scott Snowden, a graduate of Berkeley's law school, could have landed a job in one of San Francisco's better law firms. But Snowden found himself growing wearier and wearier of "the constant roar in the city, the intensity and impersonality of it." With his wife, he decamped to St. Helena, a tiny town in the Napa Valley wine country. He still earns less than $15,000 a year...
Orange groves have been obliterated by freeways. Pacific sunsets are gone, curtained by smog. Up-and-away mobility has fallen prey to traffic congestion. Now what many consider the ultimate blow to California's vaunted good life has been delivered by the state's Public Utilities Commission, which has ruled that after April 1 it will be unlawful to heat newly built swimming pools with natural gas-the only practical way to warm them...