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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians could scarcely do better, were apparently content to let Nasser do it for them...
...bodied tobaccos." In 1952 P. Lorillard Co. (Kent) designed a filter that let in only i milligram of nicotine, 9 milligrams of tar; unfortunately, the sales did not reflect the effectiveness, and last year, said the committee, Kent's new filter let through double this nicotine and tar content. Similarly, Liggett & Myers' L & M brand had only 1.5 milligrams of nicotine, 11 milligrams of tar in 1955; two years later, L & M showed almost a 70% increase in nicotine, more than a 33% increase in tar. "Amazingly," noted the committee, "it then announced 'the miracle...
...short-billed rail] in a gale!" Of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS): "He ruins the whole effect by wings of hair sticking out on either side of his face and by a mustache that one would hardly call elegant." Of Laborites Hugh Gaitskell and Aneurin Bevan: "Quite content to be permanently untidy about the ears...
...soon as the cabin's steel door was dogged down, technicians began lowering the air pressure inside it to 8 Ibs.-just over half an atmosphere, normal for 18,000 ft. At the same time they kept Farrell's oxygen supply normal by raising the oxygen content of the air fed to him through air-conditioning leads until it was double the sea-level proportion. And Farrell...
Since their last year's report, said the scientists, the world-average content of strontium 90 in human bone has increased by about 30%. The increase in young children, whose bones are growing actively, was 50%. The highest values were found in North America, the lowest in the Southern Hemisphere...