Word: health
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WASHINGTON--A report released by the National Institute of Health (NIH) yesterday said that certain brands of cigarettes are low enough in tar and nicotine that smokers can consume up to a pack a day "without apparent risk...
Though the report does not say that smoking these brands is totally safe, it does indicate that smoking these "low-tar" cigarettes in low quantities poses "no apparent risk," Gio Batta Gori, head of the NIH smoking and health program, said yesterday...
...round of acrimony. It began two weeks ago when Jackson committed the cardinal baseball sin of insubordination, twice ignoring Martin's signal to swing away. He bunted foul on the third strike for an automatic out. That did it. Martin's hair-trigger nerves were already frayed and his health deteriorated by pressure and the search for solace in liquor. He paused only long enough to smash a radio and a beer bottle against his office wall, then suspended Jackson indefinitely...
...oldest grandson of Automotive Pioneer Henry Ford, Benson dropped out of Princeton after two years to work in the family company, and eventually headed the Lincoln-Mercury division. But he was happiest behind the wheel of a succession of motor yachts, all named Onika, and partly because of ill health, never played a major role in Ford management...
DIED. Mary Pillsbury Lord, 73, former U.S. representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission and delegate to the General Assembly; of cancer; in Manhattan. The granddaughter of the founder of the Pillsbury flour company, Lord served as a volunteer in numerous health and welfare organizations. In 1945 during one of her many tours of Europe for the WAC, Lord struck up a friendship with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and in 1952 became co-chairman of the National Citizens Committee for Eisenhower-Nixon and campaigned tirelessly for the Republican ticket. In 1953 when Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her post on the Human...