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Photographers get very upset when demonstrators try to block their cameras and smear Vaseline on their lenses(a neat trick used at M. I. T.), since the photographers say they are merely exercising their famous freedom of the press. The demonstrators say that they are exercising their freedom to keep out of FBI files...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Harvard's War Correspondents | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...virtually everyone still alive who could have knowledge of the death, the author has reconstructed certain essentials. There was extreme disorder in both Masaryk's bedroom and bathroom-pillows on the bathroom floor and in the dry tub, glass bottles from the medicine chest ground under foot, a smear of excrement on the sill. Strangely, Masaryk had gone out the bathroom window even though it was much smaller than the one in the bedroom and very awkward to reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder Will Out | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...student groups, however, were divided in their tactics. The Columbia Ecology Action Collective vigorously attacked speakers' personal backgrounds as well as their symposium statements. "They came in cold and used a lot of smear tactics," commented one moderate student leader. "We like to think we did our homework and tried to argue on their [the scientists'] terms," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Militants Disrupt Annual 6-Day Meeting Of Scientist Association | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

Hammond's statistical analyses show that uterine cancer deaths began to decline in the 1930s. This was before the Pap smear was in wide use, but after cancer campaigners had begun to stress the seven warning signals. The decline accelerated dramatically with wide use of the Pap smear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cancer: Is Intercourse a Factor? | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...blonde Mama Cass is supposed to give it today. She'll smear her smile all over the poster-encrusted room; that's how she sold five sets and earned $500 last week...

Author: By David N. Hollander, | Title: The Almost Free Encyclopedia | 10/28/1969 | See Source »

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