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...nearly a third of the U.S. cigarette output. Are the filters really any good? Scientists insist that, while they may have incidental benefits, present filters are relatively futile against dangerous tobacco tars. But the Sloan-Kettering Institute's noted cancer fighter, Dr. Ernest Wynder, believes that he can render smoking less harmful partly by making filters more effective, partly by chemically treating the tobacco leaf. It remains to be seen whether the tobacco industry will adopt these means and, if so, whether a smoke will then taste like a smoke or like a laboratory. See MEDICINE, Making Cigarettes Safe...
Calling himself a "cubist impressionist," Villon progressed from his 1913 attempt to render cubist rhythms in Soldiers on the March to his lime-cool portrait of his notary father (opposite), who supported Villon's painting efforts off and on for 30 years. Villon, having refined his palette to the utmost, "touched the earth once again" by returning in 1940 to the vibrant countryside of southwest France. Part of his latest harvest: his superb pastoral illustrations for Virgil's Eclogues (TIME COLOR PAGES, June 6, 1955). Today, at 81, the holder of nearly every award the art world...
...school's courses at all is proof enough that a man or woman is much more than an ordinary linguist. Today's interpreters must not only have the concentration and quickness to translate words and sentences instantly; they must also have background enough to be able to render shades of meaning and to place emphasis where the speakers want it. "We know our requirements are difficult," says Dean Stelling-Michaud, "but they have to be." A translator who is merely a babbling robot can endanger a whole international conference...
...Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research, for example, can allocate no more than $10,000 annually to finance original work, much of which is rendered fragmentary by the interim nature of the Foundation's grants. Small departmental funds exist, varying widely in their limitations and availability. A few funds, like the Belknap bequest to the Harvard University Press, render significant services in aiding occasional research projects, but no coordinated machinery exists for aiding Harvard work on the frontiers of knowledge...
There are two main lines of defense for the system of grades. One, unquestioned, is that grades stimulate work which would not be done if grades were removed. The reformers contend that a different system could produce superior stimuli and render grades unnecessary. Such arguments vary, depending upon the reform...