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Died. Lewis Gruber, 75, tobacco executive; in Manhattan. A crack salesman who smoked three to four packs of cigarettes a day, Gruber joined the tobacco firm of P. Lorillard Co. in 1924, became president in 1956. His campaign promoting the Micronite filter helped propel Kent domestic sales from 3.4 billion to 36 billion in two years. Puffing at doctors' warnings, Lorillard advertising claimed "We're Tobacco Men, Not Medicine Men," prescribed Old Gold cigarettes (another company product) "For a Treat Instead of a Treatment...
...around the country's other major astronomy center, Tucson, Ariz., but astronomers there are already worrying about the glowing threat. The area's five major observatories-including Kitt Peak, which expects to unveil a 150-in. telescope next year-recently petitioned the town fathers to shield and filter all mercury-vapor street lamps, ban all but essential searchlights, and pave roads with blacktop instead of lighter, reflective concrete. Aware of the observatories' contributions to the local economy, the Tucson councilmen agreed to consider the requests...
...those directly exposed are added to the total statistics of the country, but this effect is even more accentuated by the fact that most of this population is necessarily in remote and usually insecure areas and therefore information regarding medical effects, if any, can only be gradually expected to filter out from the sites of direct exposure. An unknown proportion, but probably quite significant, of the exposed population, consists of Montagnard people whose births are normally at home or in villages and are rarely recorded in the Government of Vietnam medical system or allowed for in the GVN statistics...
...Francisco, 40? to 50?.) To fight that rise, the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. has now hit the streets with Laredo, a kit that might be called the Rolls-Royce of cigarette-rolling machines. Fast, efficient and all but completely foolproof, it turns out a filter cigarette in less than a minute. Included in the outfit are tobacco, specially made papers and filters, the rolling machine and even 20-butt packets (which, curiously, do not bear the compulsory warning that smoking may be injurious to health). The cost? About 20? per pack-a boon to the heavy smoker and an apparent...
Less than a year after its inception, strange stories began to filter out about the LNS itself: predictable ideological splits, internal dissension, and finally, a bizarre heist in which one faction stole all the organization's equipment from its office and moved it to a farm in Massachusetts. Then there were...