Word: smokerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With this pipe I can lean over a typewriter and smoke won't get in my eyes." A pipe smoker of more regular habit, Correspondent Dudley Doust collected material on Bowman Gray and R. J. Reynolds during a 2½ week visit to Winston-Salem, N.C., was strafed so steadily with fresh cigarettes that he puffed down about a pack a day - "more than I've smoked since we made roll-your-owns out of cattails when I was a kid in Syracuse, New York." If the men who worked on TIME'S cover story are something...
Kintner's announcement ended a long struggle by the FTC to clarify the benefit of filters for the baffled smoker. An FTC request in 1952 for an injunction to stop health-claim tobacco advertisements was blocked when the U.S. District Court ruled that cigarettes are not a "drug." Later the FTC suggested certain guide lines to assist the companies in documenting their claims, but let them use their own testing laboratories until the commission was able to develop a standard tar-and-nicotine test. The FTC never was able to establish a standard amid the welter of laboratory tests...
...tending to disprove Bernstein's own thesis that "the only way one can really say anything about music is to write music." To Bernstein, the flute included by Beethoven in an early version of the Fifth Symphony's opening is like "a delicate lady at a club smoker"; The Black Crook, an early musicomedy, is held together with "spit and chewing gum"; tonality is analogous to a baseball diamond (with home plate as the tonic note); the opening of the third act of La Boheme is a series of "cold, empty fifths, raining like snowflakes over the stage...