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...same lines, Mathias asked the audience to look at the majority party's record in Congress in comparison with campaign promises. He claimed that nothing has been done about the acute unemployment problem, and that Pierre Salinger, the President's press secretary, has become a "thinking man's filter...
...toward the moon. Most of these tiny bits of light got there, but those reflected by the moon's rough, dark surface scattered widely. Only a few of them bounced back to Lincoln Lab. Bunched together by a 48-in. telescope, the returning photons were sent through a filter that passed only light of the laser's wave length. Then the photons were picked up by a sensitive photocell...
...Broadway types who pick up extra jingle writing jingles (TIME, April 21, 1961) he is, by his own description, "the top man in the field." His monumental arias of trade include You'll Feel Better About Smoking with the Taste of Kent, Kent with the Micronite Filter; the rousing Big Gallon song, the Cities Service Suite; Newport Filter Cigarettes, Newport Filter Cigarettes; the Bon Ami Jet Spray Sonata; and the battle hymn of York Imperial-size Cigarettes. Soon radio and TV audiences will be hearing his latest creation-the new national anthem of the American Gas Association-several thousand...
When doctors began to link smoking and lung cancer ten years ago, the U.S. tobacco industry deftly headed off catastrophe by switching to filter brands, which seemed to allay the public's fears. Since then U.S. cigarette consumption has puffed merrily on to new highs year after year (24 billion packs last year), and most of the major manufacturers have reaped a harvest of profit records. Suddenly last week the cancer scare rose up again, setting off a flurry of selling on the New York Stock Exchange that tumbled every major U.S. cigarette producer's stock...
...spoilsport Degens was not yet ready for conclusion jumping. After making certain that no more organic material could be extracted from the meteorite powder, he covered his samples with filter paper and let them stand for two weeks. He then boiled them again. From each sample of dust came a fresh assortment of biological chemicals very much like the first. Dr. Degens' conclusion: the dust under the filter paper was reinvaded by ordinary earthly microbes. He is convinced that meteorites analyzed after lying around museums for years are contaminated, too, and offer no proof at all of extra-terrestrial...