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Reacting to charges that leaded gasolines are a prime source of air pollution, the Buffalo city council has adopted the nation's first anti-lead ordinance. Starting next September, all service stations in the city must have at least one pump for low-leaded gas. In 1976, the sale of gas with more than one-half gram of lead per gallon will be prohibited. The goal by Jan. 1, 1980: no leaded gas in Buffalo. Meanwhile, Akron has ordered a ban on the sale of detergents containing phosphates by June 30, 1972. Offenders will be slapped with fines ranging...
...alarm system brought maintenance crews on the double. Actually, a certain amount of leakage is desirable. "Air-supported buildings must leak," explains English Architecture Critic Reyner Banham. "They are living things. They must breathe." If they are not allowed to breathe, strange things happen: the blowers that constantly pump air into the enclosed space cause pressure to build up, and the building begins to screech, pull and tug. To those within the bubble, says Banham, "it's like being inside a toad...
Died. Jacob Blaustein, 78, founder of the American Oil Co. and former president of the American Jewish Committee; in Baltimore. With his father, Blaustein set up the first drive-in gas station in 1915, devised the first pump with a meter that read in dollars and cents, and introduced the first antiknock fuel (it powered Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to Europe in 1927). As a Jewish activist, Blaustein played a major role in persuading David Ben-Gurion to accept the U.N. plan to partition Palestine in 1948, and in negotiations with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
...that "a preliminary investigation . . . has determined that Agent Orange was used on several occasions in May, July and August by elements of the Americal Division in violation of existing instructions. During this period, a total of approximately 100 drums of 55 gallons each was dispensed by helicopter and ground-pump methods...
Matter of Markets. U.S. companies have so far survived war, revolution, guerrilla attacks and every Arab attempt to exert leverage on Washington. The Suez Canal has been closed since the Six-Day War in 1967, but American-owned companies have continued to pump oil. The most serious disruption occurred last May, when a bulldozer accidentally severed the Trans-Arabian Pipeline (Tapline) in Syria, cutting off 480,000 bbl. a day. Syria has refused to allow repairs, presumably in order to embarrass the conservative regime in Saudi Arabia, which is losing $100,000 each day that the pipeline remains closed...