Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newman's dream of a first-class, thoroughly Catholic university went up in the smoke of a thousand bonfires five hundred years ago. The church cannot and will not tolerate any thoroughgoing study of man as part and parcel of nature. Whether he likes it or not, Father Hesburgh cannot be other than a medieval man. His profession compels...
...Holy Smoke." Born in Wallasey, a grimy industrial city near Liverpool, Arthur Christiansen got to Fleet Street at 20 as London editor of the Liverpool Evening Express, a brash young man whose hair broke over a "rather high brow in embarrassing, almost girlish waves." At 29, he became editor of the Daily Express, second-largest daily in the Western world (after the London Daily Herald). In jig time, Christiansen had the Express in front, although it was later overtaken by the London Daily Mirror. Before a heart attack forced him into retirement, Express circulation doubled...
...animal," he says by way of explanation. "My approach to newspapers," Christiansen told a British television audience last year, "was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good Heavens,' when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy Smoke,' and by the time you got to the back page-well, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting...
...coincidence, suggestive evidence along the same line was reported simultaneously from Iceland to the International Academy of Pathology in Chicago. Said Dr. Niels Dungal: Icelanders have one of the world's highest death rates for stomach cancers; they eat a lot of smoked fish, and extracts from the smoke have caused stomach cancer in rats...
...Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute has discovered that a nonflammable part of a waxlike chemical in tobacco smoke acts to inhibit substances that can cause cancer. The anticancer agent (Wynder once thought that the entire substance caused cancer) is also present in auto fumes, where it seems to block cancer-causing substances more effectively-despite the fact that auto exhausts contain 60 times more of the cancer-causing agents. Wynder warned that the presence of the waxlike chemical in tobacco tar does not prevent lung cancer, hopes that eventually enough of the chemical...