Word: piped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puffing on a pipe in his book-lined living room in Cherry Cottage, Buckinghamshire, Clement Attlee, old soldier (a major in World War I) and mild-seeming architect of Britain's 1945 Labor revolution, was in a mood to speak out; he was under the impression that the go-minute interview would not be shown on TV until after his death. But last week, as a result of some "fast talking" by his interviewer (and old friend) Francis Williams, Lord Attlee agreed to a 45-minute version to be shown over the BBC on his 76th birthday. Among...
...Cancer Research, the investigators describe ingenious mechanical smokers in which they burned pound after pound of pipe, cigar and cigarette tobacco. To make sure that cigarette paper is not a major factor, they had "all-tobacco" cigarettes specially made-wrapped in ordinary cigarette-tobacco leaf. Then they painted the collected tars on the shaved backs of mice, and counted the resulting cancers. While a mouse's back is admittedly not the same as the inside of a man's lung, histologists (tissue specialists) say that it is of essentially the same structure and shows similar reactions...
Cigar and pipe smokers get less lung cancer than heavy cigarette smokers, but more cancer of the mouth. The researchers got at least as many cancers on mice with cigar and pipe tar as with tar from cigarettes (whether paper-or leaf-wrapped). So, they conclude, if smoking is to be eliminated as a cause of cancer, the dangerous substances must be eliminated from all forms of tobacco...
Nowadays, puffing his pipe and peering through thick-rimmed glasses, Betancourt is a picture of stability, calm, reason. But much of the old leftist is still there. He announced last week that although present oil concessions to foreign interests are safe, Venezuela will grant no more concessions. He promised to form a government company for further oil development. Moreover, 50-50 is on the way out: "I could not say that 50-50 should be converted to 75-25, but this matter should be the object of serious studies by technicians." He will doubtless renew-with less disruptive speed...
...Doris, he moves through the top echelons of San Francisco's moneyed, operagoing society, is a trustee of Grace Episcopal Cathedral. He plays bridge (½? to 1? a point when serious), tennis (fairly good), and golf (mid-nineties), likes to dance, prefers vintage French wine, is an inveterate pipe smoker (75 pipes and Brooks Bros. mixture 346). He is wealthy enough in his own right so that two years ago he could ask Safeway to put a $135,000 limit on his salary (since "that is all anyone is worth") by cutting out his 1% take of the company...