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...avalanche of money is attracting many companies. Last week Merck & Co., the drug manufacturers, agreed to pay $44 million in stock for Baltimore Aircoil Co., which earned $1.2 million in 1969 by making cooling towers to control thermal pollution of water. Last month the Coca-Cola Co. announced plans to acquire Aqua-Chem Inc., a Milwaukee water-purification firm. Alurm-num Co. of America moved late last year to set up a division that will develop and market antipollution systems...
Which gossip columnist boasts his own coat hook at Manhattan's Four Seasons and the singular distinction of having loaned Sophia Loren his thermal underwear? (See PRESS...
Among other things, Leonard Lyons: has loaned Sophia Loren his thermal underwear; buys his hats from Lock's of London; once beat Ernest Hemingway in a nose-measuring contest; purposely keeps his gold Bulova set eight minutes fast; dined alone with the Trumans their last night in the White House; can get away without tipping hat-check girls at New York's Inmost restaurants; introduced Two-Ton Tony Galento to Noel Coward and Marc Chagall to Richard Nixon. Leonard Lyons also is the last syndicated celebrity columnist who does all his own legwork...
...with tens of thousands of synthetic substances, many of which almost totally resist decay?thus poisoning man's fellow creatures, to say nothing of himself. The burden includes smog fumes, aluminum cans that do not rust, inorganic plastics that may last for decades, floating oil that can change the thermal reflectivity of oceans, and radioactive wastes whose toxicity lingers for literally hundreds of years. The earth has its own waste-disposal system, but it has limits. The winds that ventilate earth are only six miles high; toxic garbage can kill the tiny organisms that normally clean rivers...
...stop polluting the water for a relatively small cost. A surprisingly low $3 billion is all it would take if plants and factories were required to install waste-treatment facilities sufficient to meet existing water standards. A total of only $2 billion would pay for cooling towers to prevent thermal pollution, and $6 billion would bring sediment and acid mine drainage under control. The price of eliminating industrially caused air pollution is somewhat higher because the job must be done on a regular basis. Estimates are that it would cost $600 million a year to curb the sulfur dioxide emitted...