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Said Dr. Ochsner: "This study of Drs. Graham and Wynder [published in Cancer Research, out this week] has proven beyond any doubt that in tobacco tar there is an agent which produces cancer. If we could find it and extract it, smoking might not be harmful. But, on the basis of the number of people who are smoking now, I predict that by 1970 one out of every two or three men with cancer will have cancer of the lung-or one out of every ten or twelve men living...
...eliminate the communist inspired double-talk and admit that for all practical purposes those who serve the communist cause through fronts or elsewhere should be dealt with as communists, although it is impossible to extract a party membership card from their billfold...
Since the Russian purges of the late '30s, the civilized world has marveled uneasily at Communist ability to extract confessions from Communist victims. In the last months of the Korean war, Chinese Communist propaganda began distributing motion pictures and tape recordings of detailed confessions by U.S. airmen-mature, trained Air Force and Marine officers-that they had participated in germ warfare in North Korea. The recent return of these ex-prisoners offers the U.S. the best chance it has ever had to understand some Communist techniques for destroying truth...
...plain common sense that germ warfare was being used in my own units, then I was convinced that everything they said on the subject was an utter lie, that they didn't believe it themselves, but that they were going to carry out orders from higher authority to extract a false statement from me one way or another...
...cave that was really worse than death. Further study of the skeletons confirmed the suspicion. Each shapely skull had a hole in it, and conical stone axheads found in the debris fitted the holes exactly. Most of the larger arm and leg bones had been broken to extract the marrow. That settled it. The 40 lovely girls, agreed learned Bambergers, had been eaten in the cave...