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...environment to Congress last year, it contained 14 executive orders and 23 requests for legislative acts, the most comprehensive such program that a chief executive had ever proposed. Last week Nixon produced an even better blueprint, one clearly attuned to the "disturbing regularity" of assorted alarms (oil spills, mercury, smog). Whether the blueprint will become law remains to be seen...
...Originals by Gwen-is distributed through health-food stores in California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England. Gwen lipsticks ($2.50) are naturally colored with extracts of carrots, beets, eggplant, raspberries and blueberries; her face powder is a translucent blend of rice and corn. Of particular benefit to smog-bound skins are the natural-enzyme creams ($6) that "literally digest pollution" by dissolving toxic oils. Sallow, freckled or fading complexions are promised brighter days with Lights Up, a lotion of organic cucumbers and lemons...
...Hollywood previews are hardly the big deals they would have you believe-out in Los Angeles they crank out two or three a week and even the daily smog alert generates more excitement. But here in Boston where the only matters of course seem to be 10" snowfalls and nurses discovered strangled in their Back Bay apartments, Hollywood-typed previews are not so easily dispatched with, By December 18, with Christmas vacation only hours away, most of the Harvard community had already departed for its geographically distributed homes, except for those lucky few ... after all, man, who'd be crazy...
...problems of race prejudice or the war in Viet Nam. On the other hand, it represented a creeping disillusionment with technology, an attempt by individuals to reassert control over machine civilization. In 1970, the abuses were real enough. Last summer the dangers of dirty air were dramatized by the smog that shrouded most of the Eastern Seaboard for days. After a nationwide sampling, the Bureau of Water Hygiene reported that 5% of the water was contaminated and 11% was smelly, discolored or foul. Many cities fought a losing battle to get rid of their garbage. Philadelphia and San Francisco...
Many foreign countries began to discover environmental problems. Russia, Sweden and New Zealand banned DDT. The Japanese in particular were enraged by the effects of forced-draft industrialization on their lovely country. After 48 schoolchildren were felled by photochemical smog in Tokyo last summer, kogai (environmental disruption) became the nation's top issue. Last week Japan's Diet responded by enacting 14 tough new laws aimed at sending big polluters to prison...