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...vice, abound on the trail and in the back rooms. Reporters seeing the familiar figures of the Kennedy sisters, Pierre Salinger, Kenny O'Donnell, Steve Smith, Tex Sorensen, and so many other names, now eight years older, have begun talking about the "Camelot commandos." Yet the aver age age of Bobby's top six political advisers is still only...
...second settlement in three weeks. Sixth ranking Copper Range Co., which normally extracts about 6% of the nation's annual output of copper ore from its 2,000-ft.-deep mine in White Pine, Mich., agreed in late January to an aver age wage-fringe boost of 960 an hour over the next 42 months. Last week Copper Range sharply raised the price of its copper, from a pre-strike...
...Your story "Smoking & Safety" [Sept. 1] misleads in regard to Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. On Aug. 25 we tested some filters made by the Strickman group in order to be informed of the present state of development. Such testing does not indicate, as you aver, that Brown & Williamson is now "satisfied with the Strickman device." That is a conclusion that you formed without any verification from...
...Expo 67 can miss seeing the U.S. pavilion. The 20-story geode sic dome looms like a rising sun over the 1,000-acre site on the St. Lawrence; the heavily traveled minirail zips right through it, and every day an aver age of 5,000 people an hour line up to get in. Unquestionably, Architect Buckminster Fuller's bubble is a huge success; but the high-camp, soft-sell show inside is quite another matter. For in choosing to combine levity with patriotism, the designers of the U.S. exhibit have let themselves in for a scorching controversy...
...doctors studied the five-year health records of 11,000 Adventist men over age 30. Among the 850 deaths, only nine were due to lung cancer, whereas 56 such deaths would have been predicted from statewide aver ages. Furthermore, none of the nine who had been killed by lung cancer had been a lifelong Adventist-all had joined the sect after years of smoking. Drs. Lemon and Walden have yet to find a single case of typical lung cancer in an Adventist who never smoked...