Word: smog
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Everyone in California seems to talk about smog, but no one has been able to do much about it-until recently. Aware that the eye-irritating, lung-smothering fumes are caused largely by the tail pipe exhaust from the state's exploding auto population of 7,200,000, legislators passed a law requiring all new cars to be equipped with a state-approved exhaust control system by the beginning of the 1966 model year. Four independent manufacturers rushed in to capture the potentially huge market, spent some $20 million to develop their own antismog devices, got state approval...
...Americans are foolish to be ready so soon," sniffed the Soviet coach. "We will be ready when it counts-at the Olympics in October." Back home, a Russian sports publication reported: "The fact that we lost can be explained by the unusual-for our athletes-meteorological conditions called smog." There was something else. Despite their fantastic sports program, the Russians have apparently failed to develop much in the way of young athletes. The same faces appear year after year, and they are getting old and tired. This year's Russian men averaged two years older than their U.S. counterparts...
...business leaders, alarmed at the city's skid, formed a nonprofit organization called Civic Progress, Inc. It backed Engineer Raymond Roche Tucker, for mayor. Back in the late 1930s, Tucker had come up with a plan to eliminate the city's then notorious smog cover by cutting down the amount of volatile fuel used by industry. He later was named chairman of the department of mechanical engineering at St. Louis' Washington University. Democrat Tucker gave up his $20,000-a-year job for the $10,000-a-year mayor's post...
...Angeles, California's smog capital, has been trying for years to get rid of its trapped pollution. Since 1957, the state Air Pollution Control District has prohibited the 1,500,000 backyard rubbish burners that produced 600 tons of acrid smoke a day. It extinguished dump fires, went after smoking factory chimneys, enforced a stiff set of regulations that kept oil refineries from letting more than a trickle of smoke and fumes escape into the air. These measures did some good. For one thing, they changed the color and character of the smog. Los Angeles smog is still maddeningly...
...spite of the banishment of smoke and soot, Los Angeles smog has grown progressively worse, and the same kind of air pollution has appeared in other parts of California. Chemist Philip A. Leighton of Stanford University believes that unless something drastic is done, smog will soon shroud most of the inhabited parts of the state. Other even gloomier prophets foresee a California unfit for human life...