Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next Questions. The most improbable conspirator in the Soble ring was a roly-poly, harmless looking mystery man named Boris Morros, who used to be well known in Hollywood and Manhattan as musical director of Paramount Pictures, and later as a movie producer (Tales of Manhattan, Carnegie Hall). Over the past decade or so, Russian-born Boris Morros had little to do with moviemaking, spent much of his time in Europe. Just what he was up to was a puzzle to his old Hollywood acquaintances. Shortly after the FBI nabbed the Sobles, the Justice Department identified Morros as its star...
Although the major cancer-causing substance in cigarette tar has not yet been identified, so much is now known about it that smoking could be rendered relatively harmless-without waiting for the substance to be isolated. This reassurance came last week from the man who, since his student days, has been busy amassing proof that heavy, long-continued cigarette smoking is the main cause of the recent dramatic increase in lung cancer: Dr. Ernest L. Wynder, 34, of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute...
Other Possibilities. Wynder also saw hope for making the cigarette safer along several other lines. One is to reduce the temperature at which a cigarette burns, now in the 800°-880° C. range, to a heat now shown to be relatively harmless-around 767.° the average temperature at which tobacco burns in a pipe. (This might be done either by adding a chemical to the tobacco, or-more likely-by changing the cut to resemble that of pipe tobacco...
...incident at the time of its occurrence. Later, in an interview with the security officers he volunteered information which represented the incident, but in a disguised and misleading form. He named only a man named Eltonton who, he said, had approached three people on the project, through a harmless intermediary, with this proposal. He added that Eltonton had "a lot of experience in microfilm work, or whatever the hell" and contact with a Soviet Embassy man attached to a local consulate. Shortly thereafter, on being prodded to supply details, he said in fact that only one man had been approached...
...scientists do not agree. On April 8 scientists working under Japan's Atomic Energy Commission will present a report to the United Nations Radiation Committee. Its gist: strontium 90 should be studied carefully, and much more must be known about it before it can be written off as harmless to the human species...