Word: smog
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...being technology that did not exist: it told U.S. automakers that by the time 1975-model cars rolled from assembly lines, pollution from auto exhausts would have to be cut to levels Detroit's engineers could not then reach. Ever since, the air has been filled with a smog of contradictory warnings. Environmentalists argue that Detroit must be held to the deadline or it will stall endlessly on the job of cleansing exhausts. Automakers insist that the standards are still technically unfeasible. Last week Environmental Protection Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus, who must enforce the Clean Air Act, decreed...
...reason, as Mayor Sam never tires of explaining, is simply that his own powers are severely limited in comparison with those of the numerous commissions and boards in the area. Anti-Yorty jokes, aimed at the mayor's do-nothingness, are as common in Los Angeles as smog, traffic jams and starlets. Cracks Jesse Unruh, former Democratic Speaker of the California Assembly and recent contender for Yorty's job: "Thank God we have a mayor who doesn't meddle in civic affairs...
...being so obvious and the city's tawdriness such a familiar symbol of the nation's urban mess, each Saran-wrapped view of it is likely to jar audiences with a shock of nonrecognition. Where has Greene hidden the psychologically bombed civilian population? Where have all the smog, graffiti and litter gone...
...There is smog in Shangri-La. Stashed on the shelf of the monastery library-that repository of wisdom and enlightenment for a weary world-is a Reader's Digest Condensed Book...
...Rationing. The most startling of the strategies is to be announced in the city that has by far the worst smog problem: Los Angeles. State officials despaired-the city is almost completely dependent on cars for transportation-and they asked the EPA to help provide an answer for them. Meantime two nearby cities filed suit for faster action, and the court ruled that EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus would have to reveal his proposal for L.A. this week. With no time to develop a really workable plan, he is expected to announce an unprecedented interim expedient: World War II-style...