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Muskie is convinced that his version is a national necessity. "This bill," he says, "presents possibly the last chance to head off the disaster that air pollution could bring. Smog alerts could turn into death watches. A wave of public reaction could bring crisis legislation with federal control over industry decisions-even nationalization-things nobody wants...
...Yorkers choking in smog-filled streets or caged like cattle in screeching subways. I saw the poor strangling in the disease and dirty ugliness of the slums. It became acutely clear to me that no amount of legislation or education will ever dispel completely the force of ingrained racial prejudice and that no degree of virtue among the enlightened will extinguish the evil that breeds wars...
...other hand I was really not prepared for what I saw in Saigon. There are three and a half million people in Saigon, a city which was built for one tenth that number. The noise, the filth, the smog are overwhelming. The city is full of Hondas bought with American money. There are little kids everywhere begging. There are lepers in the streets. At night, when it quiets down, you can hear the artillery firing into the countryside...
Call the black bag Reality. Call the yellow pad Imagination. In Williams' art, as in his life, they jostled and rubbed against each other-equally powerful in their imperatives. His life was one long attempt to reconcile the two by converting the smog of New Jersey factory chimneys and the smudged drabness of slum lives into the stuff of grittily passionate...
...which compensate for the loss of octane that results from the removal of lead. Without them, high-performance engines as presently designed would lose power and produce knocking. But, argues Blanchard, the burning of the aromatics emits toxic benzene and other chemicals, which react with sunlight to produce heavy smog...