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...some delays: the deadline for meeting the highest federal antipollution standards, once scheduled for all cars by 1975, has been pushed back to 1978 and is likely to be extended further. Nonetheless, automakers are finding the regulatory climate hostile. That is especially true in California, where state authorities view smog control as a matter of rife and death and have imposed emission standards even more rigorous than those mandated by federal law, thus posing tricky production problems for Detroit...
...Year's Eve was spent in Cleveland (City of Light) Heights in an apartment at a picturesque spot, overlooking Little Italy. We ventured out once to this view to see the fireworks but either there weren't any or else we couldn't see them through the smog. We did hear lots of firecrackers though. The party was the usual lackadaisical gathering of old high school friends but I didn't know any of them. There wasn't enough ice; the dope was raunchy, the champagne not dry enough, and, frankly, I was bored. I was beginning to wish...
...population has grown from 1.5 million to more than 11 million, nearly a third of whom live without some city services. Many are campesinos fleeing rural poverty, who crowd into the capital on an average of a thousand a day. Warning posters emphasizing Mexico City's smog, traffic and unemployment are posted in marketplaces to discourage the peasant migration. But still they come...
Britain had a frightening vision of the future back in 1952, when a combination of pollution and weather produced a killer fog that caused 4,000 deaths, in many cases by aggravating existing respiratory ailments. Communities in the eastern part of the Los Angeles basin have had fre quent "smog alerts" during summer months; when an alert is issued, residents with heart or lung problems are warned to avoid unnecessary activity and mothers are told to keep small children indoors. Chicago officials issued warnings 15 times last summer when levels of ozone (a highly active form of oxygen produced, among...
Washington was full of summer tourists last week, cheerfully enduring the capital's heat and smog, accepting that while the founding fathers had guaranteed them the right to assemble, that did not assure them a parking space. The pace of Government seemed slower, more relaxed. The Senate recessed. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was out of town, not coping with trouble in some faraway cockpit but continuing his travels in the U.S. heartland to build up public support for himself and the Ford Administration's foreign policy. In Atlanta, Sigma Delta Chi, the journalism society, made...