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Today, still housed in its pillared mansion just off the Strand, the society is run by a council of 40 scholars and celebrities under the presidency of the Duke of Edinburgh and the chairmanship...
...article on lung cancer and cigarette smoking [TIME, Nov. 30] states the staggering fact that the people of the U.S. smoke 433 billion cigarettes a year. The ordinary cigarette measures 2¼ in., and a little arithmetic shows that if those cigarettes were placed in line in a single strand, they would encircle the earth at the equator 751 times. Thus...
...record last week were carefully detailed. Three well-equipped boats bobbed around like corks in the turbulent Gulf Stream off Miami at the 100-fathom mark. One boat carried Root and seven other skin-diving friends who planned to station themselves at various depths along the 1/16 -in steel strand that marked the descent. Standing by for possible rescue work was a Coast Guard cutter. In the third boat was an oceanographer of the University of Miami's marine laboratories.The oceanographer would trace Root's descent with echo sounding gear, just to make the record official...
Fifteen pretty girls brought their carefully catalogued charms and mountains of luggage to London last week and, in a polyglot babel of perfumed chatter, settled into a once-quiet, family-type hotel just off the Strand. One of them was destined to become Miss World...
...along the front, troops began erecting a double-strand barbed-wire fence, posted signs in English and Korean reading "South Limit Demilitarized Zone. Do Not Enter." All that remained in the scarred and desolate area beyond the signs were the mines and booby traps which the armistice commission must destroy with. in 45 days...