Word: tarring
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...time TV entertainer, a professional yokel. Behind his hawg-trough grin stands a greedy and brutal hog, but the public cannot see the phony character for the microphone manner. "Shucks,'' stutters Lonesome Rhodes, as he strim-strams on his li'l ole git-tar, "Ah'm jes' a country boy." And soon his public stretches...
...nobody washes the ashtrays in Widener, and as a result one's cigarette is often coated with a resinous black tar. One's hands become gummy and sticky. One is forced to quell an impulse to flick an ash or two on the rubber tile beneath one's feet...
Working with the University of Toronto's Chemist George Wright, the researchers washed tobacco in hot hexane, which dissolves the wax. They extracted the wax and burned it alone. The resulting tar proved to be at least ten times as cancer-potent as ordinary tar from whole tobacco: in five months all mice painted with a 5% solution from tests at 880° had papillomas (precursors of cancer), and 27% had full-blown cancer. The tar from the wax contained all the cancer agents now known to exist in small amounts in cigarette tar, but Dr. Wynder doubts that...
...takes off from a suspended position, hanging from a framework like a bat. Last week Test Pilot Peter F. Girard, sitting on his back with his face to the sky. started its powerful jet engines. As the roaring exhaust hit the pavement below, a spray of dirt and melted tar boiled into the air. When the X-13 became airborne, Pilot Girard maneuvered it off its suspension rig and free of the framework. Then he flew it upward like a deliberate rocket and made a gradual pushover to normal level flight...
...from 25? before the big switch to filters), but far less than the 62? a Ib. for the lighter tobacco that goes into regulars. Because of the tobacco difference, the filtered smoke usually carries more nicotine than the average regular, and just about the same amount of tar. Tobacco geneticists recently developed an exceptionally light, low-nicotine leaf that would have once been hailed as the tobaccoman's dream. But makers say it lacks the taste to sell, and so it is piling up in Government warehouses...