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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offer only rough generalizations: competitive types favor man-against-man games such as blackjack; intellectual types and women more passive pursuits such as roulette; craps, with its rattles, pitches and shouts of "Baby needs shoes!" attracts the assertive male. As for horseplayers, according to one sociologist, about 60% are lower- and middle-class men who bet long shots "to assert their ability to make individual decisions in a depersonalized society...
...revenue for the state rather than for mobsters; 2) legal control is the only way to keep out criminals. The counterarguments are that 1) even controlled gambling will lead many people into the habit who would not otherwise get hooked; 2) lotteries in particular are played mostly by lower-income families and thus constitute an unjust tax on the poor; 3) in places like Nevada, where gambling is legal, criminal elements have certainly not faded away. Virgil Peterson, director of the Chicago crime commission, argues that the underworld inevitably gains a foothold under any licensing system by organizing legal "fronts...
...circulated a statement charging that there were "more than 600 writers whom the Writers' Union obediently handed over to their fate in prisons and camps." Solzhenitsyn's letter was a daring diatribe against censorship that accused the censors of making Russian literature "something infinitely poorer, flatter and lower than it actually is." It was signed by 82 of the 500 delegates to the Congress and smuggled out to be published in the West, but no one was defiant enough to ask that it be read aloud during the proceedings...
Strickman came from Manhattan's Lower East Side, attended or audited courses at New York University and various other schools, was forced to quit during the Depression, and never earned a degree. Still, he carved himself a chemist's career, now holds pending patents on twelve inventions, and is president of Allied Testing and Research Laboratories in Hillsdale, NJ. Strickman began his search for an effective filter after his father, a heavy cigarette smoker, died of lung cancer. He first offered his discovery to several cigarette companies, but "I never got beyond the front door," probably because...
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...