Editorial Smog myths tested by Santa Barbara scientist
University of California Santa Barbara chemist Roger Millikan reports that ozone levels are lower beside freeways than a block away due to nitric oxide from exhaust. He argues smog alerts may rise if stations were placed differently and favors mobile detectors for better accuracy.
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University of California At Santa Barbara
Roger C. Millikan
Millikan
Santa Monica
Los Angeles
Youth vote turnout in Sacramento municipal election
In Sacramento 18 to 21 year olds who registered voted at 56.8 percent, above the 53 percent rate for all registered voters. In one precinct all 21 newly registered youths cast ballots. Education and interest in politics likely helped turnout, suggesting the Sacramento experience may repeat elsewhere and empower young voters in next year’s presidential election.
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Sacramento
Handy quake predicter and the bubble level theory
A UC Santa Barbara geology professor Arthur Sylvester suggests a carpenter level based quakes barometer could warn of earthquakes and aftershocks. He and a student observed a drifting level bubble before aftershocks, but many doubt Californians will buy into this device amid seismic risk.
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California
Nature
Arthur Sylvester
University of California At Santa Barbara
Sylvester
Mr. Sylvester
Ble
Ther
Laurel and Hardy echo 20th century air cleaner irony
In a newspaper aside on Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, a department store ad for air and water purifiers cites an electrostatic precipitator claiming to remove invisible pollutants from rooms. The piece notes the paradox of using electricity from burning fuels to clean air, mirroring the duo's bumbling, circular antics.
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Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Midwifing the difficult birth of a nation
In Umtata, the Transkei, the author weighs the slow path to independence for Xhosa-speaking Bantu under South Africa’s mixed role as midwife and mother-in-law. He argues progress hinges on patient world involvement, cautions against doom-laden labels about apartheid, and envisions a Transkei led by a rising Xhosa civil administration with continued white support.
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Transkei
Republic of South Africa
Imperial Hotel
U Thant
New York
South Africa
U.N. General Assembly
General Assembly
Security Council
Africa
Fort Hare
World Council of Churches
United States
Philippines
Congress
Chicago
Justice for the unborn in California abortion ruling
Letter writer argues against a Court of Appeals decision striking down much of California's therapeutic abortion law. The piece questions a woman's constitutional right to abortion, doctors' beliefs, and the concept of quickening, raising issues of fetal rights, medical ethics, and inheritance rights in San Rafael authored by MES. MARIE DePIZZOL.
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Court of Appeals
California
Marie Depizzol
Straw Man Parallels Guide Through Turbulent Era
A reflective column traces across ghetto clashes and campus riots from Newark to Attica, arguing officials inflated threats like snipers and conspiracies. It links getting tough tactics, legal crackdowns, and racial divides to a broader pattern of fear-driven policy and frozen institutions in the Vietnam era.
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Jackson State
Kent State
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Augusta
Washington
Ramsey Clark
Martin Luther King
Vietnam
Tonkin Gulf
Peking
My Lal
Amerian
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