Word: filteration
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...wonderful thing about music is how it manages to filter past the most heavily soundproofed door. Though U.S. jazz as such is not officially banned in Russia, the culture commissars take pains to ridicule it as "bourgeois decadency"; concerts are nonexistent and nightclub jazz is discouraged; the importation and sale of U.S. jazz records is taboo. But last week two topflight U.S. Negro jazzmen just back from a month-long trip behind the Iron Curtain had news that the Russians not only know all about U.S. jazz, but play it with fervor whenever Big Brother is not looking. Jazz Pianist...
...racing to launch the first true spaceship. Countdowns are about to begin when dark vessels loom in the sky above. The Overlords have arrived. With firm benevolence-and without showing their physical forms-they enforce a kind of pax stellarum. When the Overlords finally reveal themselves, dark thoughts filter up in man's mind. The visitors are winged, horned, 12 ft. tall and have tails. What is their mission? Are they supreme in the universe, or do they serve some understandable-and thus conquerable-Overmind? It is, the author relates with relish, the end of the human race...
...menthol drive reached its peak of intensity, proclaimed by full-page ads that touted every gimmick that adman can conceive and machine execute. Philip Morris (Marlboro, Parliament) launched Alpine on a national scale, billed it not only as a long, low-tar, lightly mentholated cigarette with "the longest filter yet," but as one of the few cigarettes since Camel to come in a package with a picture on it (of an Alpine mountain). Brown & Williamson, whose "Thinking Man" Viceroys thoughtlessly slumped 20% in the first quarter, clawed back with two new filters: the mentholated Belair, whose pack also boasts...
...commercial that richly deserves to be part of Cavalcade was heard last week on Reno, Nev. radio stations. It sounded like one of the Viceroy ("Thinking Man's Filter'') playlets...
Tobaccoless Cigarettes. A new cigarette that contains a combination of processed natural fibers instead of tobacco is being test-marketed by Bantob Products of New York. Called Vanguard, the loosely packed cigarettes smoke like tobacco, taste like nothing, smell like incense. Cost: roughly that of other filter cigarettes...