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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...photographs made of F.D.R. at Yalta: "It was my job to screen those pictures and to release to the press only those least marked by the deadly, haggard weariness of the commander whose face . . . had so long been a symbol of confidence." In Los Angeles, recalling that she had seen some of the censored pictures, Eleanor Roosevelt did not concur: "I do not believe that [F.D.R.] looked so bad in them...
There is a chance that Comet Arend-Roland will be the first really bright comet since 1910 (Halley's, not due to be seen again by earthlings until about 1984), but astronomers hate to make predictions about comets. Far from behaving like respectable members of the solar system, they are skittish and unpredictable. They wax and wane capriciously. Some of them grow magnificent tails; others...
Comet Arend-Roland was discovered last Nov. 8 by S. Arend and G. Roland of the Royal Observatory at Uccle. Belgium. At that time it was a faint, hazy object, much too dim to be seen without a telescope. Astronomers studied its motion and decided that it would pass within 30 million miles of the sun. Heading for outer space again, it will come within about 52 million miles of the earth on April...
Explains Denis Martin: handshaking across the sea is not enough; brotherhood between peoples is achieved only through painfully acquired understanding. "There must be direct contact between peoples so that their differences can be seen and the truth understood," he says. "East and West today live cut off from each other. We must know the truth, and by knowing it we will have love for each other...