Word: smog
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...your second home. Still another postponement of your first visit to Japan since moving into the White House would harden the Japanese suspicion that you attach no urgency at all to the U.S.'s relations with the world's third economic power. Through Japan's photochemical smog, you'll be seeing a paradoxical country where islands of quiet and beauty coexist with urban sprawl, and where modernization has never meant Westernization. Japanese society is awesomely purposive; yet it is now groping uncertainly for its role in a drastically changed international setting...
Hawaii may seem a pristine chain of islands to tourists, but parts of Oahu Island are almost as densely populated as New York City. With 501,000 licensed motorists among its 770,000 inhabitants, the island is rapidly becoming a little Los Angeles-complete with photochemical smog. In an effort to stop the increasing pollution, Governor John A. Burns has signed into law a bill that creates a transportation control commission empowered to recommend limits on the number of cars in the state...
...Nine, a "Clean Environment" initiative, is approved by the state's voters in next week's primary. The initiative is the brainchild of a former Sacramento car dealer named Edwin Koupal and his wife Joyce. Originally, back in 1969, they set out only to fight Los Angeles smog. "I couldn't believe people could really live in that air," says Joyce Koupal. "My first reaction was, 'Why don't they outlaw it?' " The Koupals began collecting signatures for an unsuccessful antismog petition, but when the Federal Government announced its own rules against air pollution...
...course, this thing Los Angeles has with its cars, this secret life, is coming to an end. You can go up in the mountains of Griffith Park in the center of L.A. any warm evening now, park on a cliff edge and see the city dying. The smog has a topography all its own these days, massive chocolate mountains of it below you to the east, a permanent black tumor over Hollywood and the downtown area seeping in channels through the passes out into the Valley and on into the Mojave Desert; to the west, over West L.A., Inglewood...
...place had an allure. It was a challenge to the imagination and to the will. And in many ways, it was strangely beautiful. Even now, if you look beyond the gray tangle of freeways, past the checkered patterns of tract houses, through the brown veil of smog even now, some of the beauty remains. In the dawn, the air is pale and still; only the eucalyptus trees stir, their leaves flickering silver high up in the new light. With the sun warm at your back, you can look to the east and see snow glinting white on the distant mountains...