November 19, 1972

Dr W S Aronow, Long Beach, Calif, VA Hosp cardiologist, repts 'compelling evidence' that small amts of carbon monoxide from automobile exhaust aggravate angina pectoris, rept in Annals of Internal Med; describes experiment in which 10 men with heart disease were driven through heavy morning Los Angeles freeway traffic; drs periodically measured volunteers' heart rate and blood pressure and recorded their electrocardiograms during drive; men developed raised blood levels of carbon monoxide, slower heart rates, lower blood pressure, decreased lung functions and poorer exercise performances; when same men breathed purified instead of polluted air while driving over same route, their condition did not worsen; study has implications for all healthy people exposed to air pollution; Calif State Health Dept air pollution expert Dr J R Goldsmith says findings suggest that no threshhold exists before carbon monoxide affects heart disease patients; says that possibly 'badly ventilated heating and cooking stoves may also produce such ex-posures in home'; Aronow advises patients with known heart disease to avoid smoke-filled rooms and public places where smoking is permitted and to alter their commuting schedules to avoid rush-hr traffic and peak levels of carbon monoxide

Article revs background of Doubleday, now in its 75th yr of publishing, and presently fighting attempts by some stockholders to turn concern into publicly-owned co

W Chapman, who directs mission on Indian reservation in SD, describes Thanksgiving incident in which Indians on reservation seemed indifferent to buffalo meat he managed to procure for Thanskgiving dinner and instead were excited about turkeys that were dropped from plane under arrangements made by former mission aide; illus

BUENOS AIRES — Juan Domingo Perón left Argentina 17 years ago, a dictator toppled by a military revolt, bound for exile on a Paraguayan Navy gunboat that had given him asylum. He returned last Friday on a chartered jetliner, tanned and looking fit de spite his 77 years—and still the leader of the largest political force in Argen tina.

actor R Cook, who appears in play Oh Coward!, revue of work of N Coward, comments on role; por