Word: tarring
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After eight years' work in his home laboratory, an obscure New Jersey chemist last week claimed a grand prize in cigarette research: a filter that removes two-thirds of the tar and nicotine that now drifts past conventional filters, yet does not destroy the tobacco taste. Robert L. Strickman, 56, had impressive backing for his discovery. With full fanfare, it was announced by Columbia University's president, Grayson Kirk, and Dr. H. Houston Merritt, dean of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Reason: Chemist Strickman gave Columbia the rights to the filter -a gift that...
...school was the best in the world and I knew many people there." Under his agreement with Columbia, which gives Strickman less than 10% of licensing revenues, the filter will be made available to any cigarette company, provided that the filtered smoke contains no more than 10 milligrams of tar (a cancer agent) per cigarette-a limit that some U.S. brands presently exceed, even in tests with the new filter. "This," says Dr. Cushman Haagensen, a top cancer researcher, "is an educated guess at the relative safety level...
Several incidents marred the event. A mile from the march's origin, when some spectators hoisted an antiwar sign, several dozen paraders waded into them. Young toughs poured hot tar over a long-haired bystander for no other reason than his beatnik look, then covered him with feathers; he suffered minor burns. Otherwise the combativeness was limited mostly to vigorous flag-waving and the legends blazoned on hand-lettered signs. There were, of course, hyper-hawks galore, toting signs reading "Bomb Haiphong" and "Drop peaceniks on Hanoi." One banner proclaimed: "Ho Chi Minh is a fink-give...
...social and economic lag that afflicts the nation's second largest disadvantaged minority: the 4,677,000 Mexican-Americans of the U.S. Southwest-proud, poor and increasingly protest-minded. From the Rio Grande to the Russian River, in the bleak barrios of East Los Angeles and the tar-paper colonias of the San Joaquin Valley, the Mexican minority is struggling to articulate its anger...
...newspaper read by the leaders of Washington turns out to be not the Washington Post but the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Advertiser, a free sheet dropped on the doorsteps of suburban Washington homes. A right-wing columnist named "Tar" Paulin, the paper's publisher wrote: "As I progressed through [the MRA manifesto's] 31 pages of text something almost wonderous (sic) and magical happened to me. My cynicism gave way to a deeper, greater emotion--moral re-armament ... I'm a dedicated anticommie. I cheer Moral ReArmament. Its litle pamphlet is like a hurricane of commonsense sweeping away...