Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experts, when the smoke dies down...
Swinging Pendulum. For four days smoke billowed over Calcutta's skyline. Finally, Home Minister G. L. Nanda ordered two army battalions into the city, told them to show "no mercy in quelling the disorder." The army clamped martial law on five of the city's 25 police districts, gunned down looters and arsonists in the streets, threw more than 10,000 demonstrators into jail. By the time order was restored, 200 were dead, 600 wounded, 73,000 homeless, and whole portions of the city razed. Hoping to minimize the religious aspect of the rioting, West Bengal officials took...
Experiments with machine-smoked cigarettes showed that polonium attaches itself to smoke particles and may also pass into the lungs with the inhaled smoke in the form of gas. The amount of polonium in tobacco, as in a tossed green salad, would be negligible if, like the salad, it passed quickly through the system. But the polonium-bearing smoke appears to get trapped in the tissues and crevices of the airways, say Drs. Radford and Hunt. Because of this trapping, they suggest, polonium builds up to concentrations that are high enough so that its radioactivity could begin the process that...
Absolutely Not. The Washington Star interviewed Mikhail A. Lavrentyev, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a Capitol visitor. Although Lavrentyev does not smoke, he graciously tried to boost-or perhaps undermine?-the morale of tobacco addicts with an apposite Russian proverb. The heavy smoker, said Lavrentyev, will never be burglarized and will never grow old, "because he stays up all night coughing-and won't live long enough to enjoy...
...stocks climbed on the major stock exchanges. Tobacconists everywhere reported an unprecedented surge in the sales of pipes; demand for bejeweled little pipes for ladies multiplied so fast that distributors rushed their shipments by air freight. Among the biggest gainers were the anti-nicotine preparations. Bantron, the largest-selling smoke-curbing drug, could not keep up with demand from its distributors, and neither could Nikoban and Ban-Smoke...