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Chain-smoking Russian Pamir filter cigarettes, he threw a candlelight dinner for correspondents of the Daily Express, at which he blithely denounced such Western institutions as "the expense-account lunch and the English Channel" He poured vodka, wine and brandy at the Minsk Hotel and "a number of restaurants" for a visiting science correspondent from London's Sunday Times. And, most satisfying of all, Moscow's own Izvestia ran a frontpage interview with him appropriately titled: "Hello, Comrade Philby...
...hear anyone who defends U.S. involvement and only a few of us have ever conversed with someone who has actually fought over there. The war has now been going on long enough so that students who dropped out of college in '64 and joined the Army are beginning to filter back to Harvard after their tours of duty in Vietnam...
That feud centered on the FTC's decision to smoke nonfilters down to a finger-burning 23 mm. (about ½ of an inch); the filters were puffed to a bare ⅛ of an inch before the filter wrapping. The industry protested that the average smoker tosses the butt away at 30 mm. (about 1½ in.). The FTC itself was divided 3 to 2 on whether to make the butt 23 mm. or 30 mm., which would generally lower the levels but make for more uniform testing because most filter and non-filter types could then be smoke-tested...
There were other gripes, too. The American Tobacco Co. complained that the 23.1 mg. of tar reported for its 100-mm. Pall Mall filters was based on an old version replaced in October by an improved filter that yields less than 21 mg. For all the huffs, however, Magnuson is going ahead with plans to urge retailers to display the rankings at cigarette counters...
...filter, MF - menthol filter, NF - non-filter...