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Just eight months after proudly announcing its support of the Strickman cigarette filter-for which it received a major financial interest in return-Columbia University last week did an embarrassed about-face. Acting at the request of the inventor, New Jersey Chemist Robert L. Strickman, who felt that the university was dragging its feet on the product, Columbia backed out of the deal. The university said that it had made "a well-intentioned mistake in entering a highly controversial and competitive commercial field." It had indeed, suggested Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson. The outspoken tobacco industry foe charged...
...While reviewing some long-forgotten notes, Green recently discovered that in 1910 Astronomer R. W. Wood had taken telescopic shots of the moon through a filter that absorbed light with a wave length of 3,100 angstroms.When the pictures were developed, they showed black spots on the lunar surface. Because the light reflected from sulphur is absorbed at 3,100 angstroms, Wood reasoned, the black spots on the moon must be sulphur...
...crowd remained standing silently until Maharishi ('The Great Sage') had sat down on a deer-skin, meditated for a few seconds, and smiled transcendentally. But after a half hour of his message people began to chat and filter...
...Dean Rusk seemed to lend credence to them (though the Russians insisted that Dobrynin had gone home to see his ailing father-in-law). In Warsaw, U.S. Ambassador to Poland John Gronouski met with Chinese diplomats for the first time in seven months, but no news was permitted to filter from behind the closed doors. In Hanoi, Cambodia's Foreign Minister Prince Norodom Phourissara held talks with high North Vietnamese officials...
...over eight years at Clemson and North Carolina State. And, oh yes, a guy named Pete-Peter Maravich, 20, his son and favorite basketball player. At 6 ft. 5 in. and 170 Ibs., Pete Maravich looks, as one sportswriter put it, "like a cross between a clarinet and a filter king." But basketball, at least in college, is still a game for shooters not bruisers, and in that department Pete comes on like gunsmoke...