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...devising ways to cut down the effects of tars and nicotine. Last week the Swedish tobacco monopoly settled on a fractions-of-an-inch policy: the last puffs do more harm than the first. Testing 19 local and 18 foreign brands, the Swedish Institute for People's Health found that king-sized cigarettes give the smoker more tars and nicotine if smoked to the same stub as a regular, much less than a regular if smoked only for 1⅞ inches, the usual length of a smoke for regulars. Convinced that the trouble comes in the last few puffs...
...Villa Giulia's unquestioned Etruscan masterpieces is the Sarcophagus of the Spouses (above-), found in the ancient Etruscan city of Caere (now the small town of Cerveteri, some 25 miles outside Rome) and recently reassembled. Molded from terra cotta in the 6th century B.C., it is a key to the culture of the Etruscans, who, haunted in life by a host of demons and ogres, prepared optimistically for a life after death that would be an unending feast. Their vision of paradise is vividly shown on the walls of the underground tombs-a world in which dancers, lute players...
...point is Gropius' new plan for Iraq's University of Baghdad. The $70 million project seemed a lost cause when General Abdul Karim Kassem swept to power last summer. Never one to give up easily, Gropius last January flew to Baghdad himself with plans and models, found, to his relief, that Premier Kassem was enthusiastic.* Kassem's only cavil: the university was not big enough. Gropius promptly agreed to increase the size by one-third (from 8,000 to 12,000 students...
...Explorer Minsky's standards are high ("Her limbs," he says of the ideal stripper, "must be tapered rose stems, and her ankles sufficiently narrow so that an ordinary man's hand can completely close around them"), and Harold was disillusioned by what he found. "The girls just aren't as pretty as I'd expected. I don't know whether it was what they went through in the war, or what, but they aren't what they ought to be." Minsky's Burlesque Baedeker in brief: ¶Germany-"The girls are awful; there...
...objective was to measure the capacity of the highenergy, high-altitude explosions to cause "eclipse blindness"-lesions of the retina, so called because they have most often happened to people who watch eclipses of the sun without protecting their eyes. Rabbits were chosen as the test animals. AEC scientists found that an explosion the size and height of Teak delivers its thermal energy in less time than a rabbit (or a man) can blink. Said the report grimly: "Retinal burns were produced in the rabbits at distances up to 300 nautical miles." This tended to support earlier Army research indicating...