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...Urged New York and New Jersey to adopt more stringent controls over what one HEW official described as "the worst, most critical" air pollution in the U.S. The air is so foul, said a Public Health Service official, that "if it were subject to the pure food and drug laws, it would be illegal to ship it interstate because it's unfit for human consumption." Or for anything else, in fact: a study showed that Cleopatra's Needle, a stone obelisk in Manhattan's Central Park...
...censorship they are trying to impose on the already-written book is another story -- and a much blacker one. The Kennedys, after all, didn't have to designate one person to chronicle the late President's last days. But once they did, they should not have imposed such stringent ex post factor limits on the author of their choice...
Though industrial mishaps have nearly been halved in the past third of a century, and though stringent auto-safety standards will soon be put into effect (see U.S. BUSINESS), the U.S. still lacks prevention programs for private homes, public places, and forms of transport other than motor vehicles, where the great majority of nonfatal accidents occur. Moreover, says the Council (an offshoot of the National Academy of Sciences), the care that an accident victim can expect in most U.S. cities is too often inadequate. Ambulance service is frequently slipshod, with untrained personnel causing more injuries and deaths by careening through...
...More stringent precautions may be needed nationwide. By 1980, says Frank M. Stead, chief of California's Environmental Sanitation Division, air pollution will be so heavy that no amount of existing controls will suffice to regulate it. The only solution, wrote Stead in a paper released last week, is the elimination of all gasoline-burning cars and trucks in California within the next 14 years. As a possible replacement, Stead proposed electric vehicles...
...which large fuel consumers, incinerator operators, vehicle drivers, and home and apartment-house owners are asked voluntarily to reduce or stop burning fuels and wastes. In Stage 2, reduction becomes mandatory; in 3, ''a serious danger to public health" is declared and stringent limitation placed on all traffic and commercial activity...