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Stink at Interchanges. Saturdays are not so bad; the cruising sniffer can drive all the way downtown without seeing the needle push above 40 p.p.m. During weekday rush hours, though, it sometimes hits a peak of 120 p.p.m. "It is most exciting," says Haagen-Smit. "You get behind another car, and the pointer goes way up, especially where you have a slowdown of traffic." Top readings come at the nightmarish interchanges, where curling roadways tangle like spaghetti on a fork and hundreds of car engines pant in frustration. "Tunnels and depressions concentrate the carbon monoxide," says the professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemistry: Monoxide Rides the Freeways | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...Susie Scandal" of 1961, which involved several upperclassmen and a 14-year old girl, resulted in the elimination of all weekday hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Students Win Increase In Parietals | 2/3/1965 | See Source »

...rooms from 11 a.m. to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays and from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sundays. The new policy, approved this weekend by the university corporation and already in effect, allows females to visit student rooms seven days a week. All students, including freshmen, are permitted weekday parietals from noon to 7 p.m. provided the student tells his college master or dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Students Win Increase In Parietals | 2/3/1965 | See Source »

...Weekday station rates between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Wrong Numbers for A.T. & T. | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...found nothing to account for what they called "the tired-child syndrome." In desperation, the medics went back to questioning the parents about their children's habits. Only after several interviews did the truth come out. The youngsters were spending from three to six hours watching TV every weekday, and six to ten hours on Saturdays and Sundays. Captain Richard M. Narkewicz and Captain Stanley M. Graven told the American Academy of Pediatrics in Manhattan last week that some of the younger children were spending a quarter of their waking hours watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pediatrics: Those Tired Children | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

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