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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 2,000 research studies made in the past three years, the report repeats that cigarette tars can cause lung cancer; it depressingly documents further evidence that the weed can bring on peptic ulcers, aortic aneurysm, cancer of the larynx, mouth, pharynx, esophagus and bladder. A two-pack-a-day smoker aged 55 to 64, says the report, has 34 times more chance of dying of lung cancer than a nonsmoker. But an equally grave danger may be coronary heart disease caused by the massive doses of nicotine and carbon monoxide in cigarettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Smoking & Safety | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...most Beatleologists as an affirmation of everything happy in life. But this is an ambiguous song, in which can also be seen a denunciation of the urban rat race. It uses country metaphors to comment on city life, starting out with a hearty cockcrow, but ending up with a pack of hounds yelping after their prey. Maybe life has the singer at bay, and he doesn't know...

Author: By Billy Shears, | Title: Sgt. Pepper's One and Only | 8/22/1967 | See Source »

...believing all the things that had been written about me," Lyn don Johnson told an aide last week, "I would pack my suitcase and go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Lyndon's Low | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

What is being written - and said - is that unless there is a decided upturn in his fortunes before November 1968, Johnson may have to pack that suit case. Between unrest over urban upheaval, the war and the need to raise taxes, the President's popularity has shriveled almost to the vanishing point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Lyndon's Low | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...Jewish, he replies by describing a day of mass slaughter. "Am I Jewish? We light cigarettes, and we start the shooting. We fill up the bottom. They lay in from the top. The blood runs down from their heads. They lay in from the sides. We pack 'em more, and underneath there's movement . . . I'm a great packer, should have made trunks. Am I Jewish? . . . Just a day in my life. Just a clear day to enjoy forever. I don't know about my mother, but my father was pure-blooded Aryan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Through a Twisted Glass | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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