Word: filteration
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...have turned my palace into a prison," cock-a-doodled Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali, 63. "I am not allowing myself any kind of distraction. Look at my television set: I have turned it upside down and put a distorting filter in front of it." Could he be working at something? Si, si, nothing less than a vast canvas 15 yards square, "a study of tuna fishing" that will be ready for exhibition in the fall. And when he is not painting, he continued, he keeps busy photographing God. "God invented man and man invented the metric system," Dali explained...
...Extraordinary sponsorship," said Dr. Ashbel C. Williams, president of the American Cancer Society, adding coolly that "we would welcome evidence on the biological effect of cigarettes with this new filter"-evidence that Strickman and Columbia might have been able to supply if they had held up their announcement for a few more months. One leading cancer researcher called it "downright peculiar" that Columbia had merely farmed out the filter experiments to a commercial laboratory-ignoring its own eminent medical researchers...
Giving Up. All the same, Columbia's filter financing seemed to come at a somewhat inauspicious moment. Medical experts are convinced, as Surgeon General William Stewart of the U.S. Public Health Service puts it, that "the lower the tar and nicotine content, the lower the general health danger." But what disturbed critics of Columbia's sweeping announcement (Columbia's press release called the filter "a development of far-reaching importance, which promises to benefit mankind") is the fact that tar and nicotine are not the only dangerous elements in cigarettes. Just the day before Strickman...
Going Along. To be sure, there were some negative votes among Columbia's 24 trustees when the university polled them to see if they favored backing the filter. But the majority seems to agree with President Kirk's view: "Since people are going to smoke anyway, we feel they should have the safest cigarette possible." This was also one of Secretary Gardner's recommendations...
According to Strickman, Columbia has now begun a new series of complex studies of the filter's effect on the gases in tobacco smoke, though not on living tissue, and the results may be announced within a few weeks. When asked why the university did not wait for such studies, Strickman replied: "You can research from now to dooms day. But you have to start some place. Do you have any other filters that can do what this one does...