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...people breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat. Often invisible and immune to bacteriological attack, they damage plants, kill fish, slip undetected through sewage-treatment plants, and blanket entire cities with clouds of noxious vapor. Some, like sulphur dioxide, are clearly toxic-memorably so in the five-day siege of sulphurous smog in Donora, Pa. (pop. 13,000), which struck down 5,910 and killed 18 in October 1948. Others, doctors think, may have serious cumulative effects on human health-which will not show up for perhaps 20 or 30 years. Some may cause lung disease...
West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt had feared that the Communists were starting a new round of "salami" tactics against Berlin, and last week proved him right. Fortnight ago, Party Boss Walter Ulbricht's East German regime declared a five-day period during which passes would be required of West Germans entering the city's Communist east sector. Last week, taking another slice, the East Germans made the pass requirement permanent for West Germans visiting East Berlin. Excepted from the rule: foreigners and native Berliners, who cross the border by the thousands each day to work in the east...
Undisguisedly Unhappy. Under terms of the settlement, the trainmen got their six-day week reduced to a five-day week, while continuing to get paid for seven days. In return, they agreed to take 2½? instead of the 5.4? hourly wage increase won by the union throughout the industry last month, and to drop some featherbedding practices. The settlement will cost the Long Island $162,041 a year, which the road will cover by raising annual commuter fares for its 85,000 daily commuters by $1 or $2, adding to a recent $24-a-year fare increase...
...world, Formosa's refugee scholars guard a treasure: the tradition of humanistic and rationalistic China. But Formosa is losing intellectuals so fast that the tradition is endangered. Last week, at the University of Washington in Seattle, 100 Chinese and U.S. scholars discussed ways of saving it in a five-day Sino-American Conference on Intellectual Cooperation. Chief recommendation: fast aid from U.S. universities and foundations as well as the Government, which has given Formosa huge sums for military defense but little for mental development...
...Long Island offered its trainmen the five-day week, but tied in the offer with economies that would pare the cost from $350,000 to $200,000 a year. Without these, the Long Island said, it would have to raise fares more than the 4?-a-ride hike planned to cover recent pay increases. Under the road's plan, the union would have had to accept a cut in the Long Island's basic hourly pay rate, which is 3? to 7? higher than on most U.S. railroads, to bring it in line with other roads. The union...