Word: smog
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...discharge of high voltages into the air can produce ozone, a form of oxygen with three (rather than two) atoms in its molecular makeup, and oxides of nitrogen. Ozone can oxidize or "burn" healthy tissue, and nitrogen oxides form nitrous acid and one of the major components of smog. All of these might well affect people and plants that live near the lines...
...this pre-Labor Day season, however, the local cars and pick-up trucks which drive by are frequently interspersed with sedans and stationwagons bearing out-of-state license plates and anxious tourists heading north to escape the heat wave and smog alert descending upon the East Coast metropolises...
...journalists were as excited as their French counterpart about the cover, but for different reasons. The St. Paul Pioneer Press noted that TIME had emphasized Minneapolis and virtually ignored its twin city. "If this article brings Minnesota an influx of fast-buck sharpies from the east, or smog-befuddled escapees from California," said the Press, "let them settle in Minneapolis. We won't be childish about it." "If the article seems to slide over some of our problems, that's all right," said a Minneapolis Tribune editorial. "Our problems, to one degree or another, are similar to those...
...Rome, Christina Ford and Actor Helmut Berger were among those who turned up at Valentino's salon, newly decorated with mirrored ceilings. Presumably resigned to the realities of urban smog, the designer has given up on white for coats, showing tones that range from golden beige ("oat") through bottle green. Those without fur collars were finished off with a fringed wool challis square folded in a triangle around the neck. Valentino's most famous client, Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis, visited Rome before the collection had been completed for preview; she ordered some clothes from drawings and will...
...late forties and early fifties, with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra hoofing and crooning their way through "New York, New York, it's a wonderful town." Residents of the Big Apple should get a charge out of the peaches and cream idyllic presentation of their city, as no smog or muggers can stand in the way of a couple of sailors on liberty. Ann Miller is what they are after, and Lenny Bernstein and Roger Edens set the mood music. Channel...