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National Geographic : 1967 Sep
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sweep along the channel toward the city, col lecting odors and stack emissions from plant after plant and producing a blend of aromas sometimes called the "sweet smell of money." Lately the growing urge to improve the qual ity of living has united civic leaders and in dustry in a campaign to reduce air pollution. Command Post in the Race to Space Turning to the southeast, I spotted white gleams that were the clean, functional build ings of the Manned Spacecraft Center, 25 miles away. For a closer look, I drove over the Gulf Freeway to the command post of the Apollo program that may send men to the Cleopatra's envy might have been aroused by the luxury of the First Lady Health Beauty Club at Post Oak Plaza. In the Bath sheba Tepidarium, beneath hand-painted tile murals depicting legends of ancient Greece, women of Houston practice Balinese water exercises. Other lavish salons offer them whirlpool baths in milk or perfumed water, the heat of a Finnish sauna, or Swed ish "cold-energy" plunges. For contouring the figure, they can pedal bicycles with sad dles upholstered in mink. Businessmen com bat middle-age spread at the Presidents Health Club in midtown Houston. EKTACHROME(c NATIONALGFOGRAPHICSOCIETY 345
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