Word: lunging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deepstar, which looks like a close cousin to Alvin, is being built by Westinghouse in collaboration with Jacques-Yves Cousteau, co-developer of the Aqua-Lung. It, too, has a streamlined outside hull containing a thick-walled pressure sphere to protect its crew. Its intended depth will be 12,000 ft., and it will have a claw like a giant lobster. Deepstar will not be ready until 1965, when Westinghouse will begin using it in its own underwater research, besides leasing or selling it to other organizations that feel an urge to explore the ocean bottom...
...take years for these improve ments to show up in a lower death rate from lung cancer. But figures compiled at the National Cancer Institute indi cate that while lung cancer is still increasing, it is doing so less rapidly...
...thousands of cigarettes smoked in machines, collected the vapors and "tar," and tested innumerable fractions as potential causes of cancer. Most early tests were on the backs of mice be cause the skin there is of the same cellular class as the inside of a man's lung. More recently, to study an approximation of what happens when smoke rushes past the tiny, hairlike filter system (cilia) of the human respiratory tree, the researchers have taken to using parts of the gills of hard-shell clams...
...stored it in hogsheads, in which it fermented; now, to cut losses from spoilage in storage, this method has largely been supplanted by flue-curing, or redrying, which pasteurizes the tobacco before storage and prevents fermentation. A Polish-born agricultural technologist, Jan Beffinger, recently reported that there is less lung cancer among smokers in Russia and Poland, where air-cured tobacco is treated with enzymes to control the fermentation...
...cigarette smoking ever be entirely safe? Drs. Wynder and Hoffmann said they doubted it. They thought the only way to avoid the risks of lung cancer from smoking was not to smoke. But, they conceded: "Man may not always be willing or able to accomplish this objective." Therefore they urged more research toward producing "less hazardous" smoking products. "Considerable progress has been and is being made," they concluded. "Further advances are certainly feasible...