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Though who is doing what in the industry is a competitive secret, some manufacturers are trying a modern variant of their grandfathers' way of curing tobacco. They used to let it dry in the air, stored it in hogsheads, in which it fermented; now, to cut losses from spoilage in storage, this method has largely been supplanted by flue-curing, or redrying, which pasteurizes the tobacco before storage and prevents fermentation. A Polish-born agricultural technologist, Jan Beffinger, recently reported that there is less lung cancer among smokers in Russia and Poland, where air-cured tobacco is treated with...
...they were crosseyed. At the last minute, Belli put in a rush call to Chicago, persuaded Neurologist Frederic A. Gibbs-who had been reluctant to testify-to fly immediately to Dallas to help the defense. Gibbs got on the stand and said that Ruby was a victim of psychomotor variant epilepsy, characterized by "lack of emotional control-impulsive and obsessive types of behavior...
After 1930, these and variant operations were widely used for ulcers. It mattered not that the ulcer might be in the duodenum: the part to cut out, the doctors reasoned, was in the stomach, where the digestive juices were being overproduced. Over the years, doctors concluded that this part was high up in the stomach. Some surgeons went on cutting out not only 50% but 75% to 80% of the stomach. "This," complains Boston's famed Surgeon Francis D. Moore (TIME cover, May 3), "is not only crippling but wanting in elegance of rationale...
...fashionable crowd forced him to flee Newport. He then took refuge at Tuxedo where the coat sans tail became popular. From Tuxedo the tuxedo spread bearing the name of the town which accepted it. Recently, though, the tuxedo has often lost its excellent name to be called another variant of the dinner jacket...
...Center in Bethesda, Md., where cons in a guarded ward are exposing themselves to the risk of Asian influenza. Here the purpose is to test the effectiveness of new vaccines that have had to be developed because the Asian flu virus of 1957-61 has been displaced by a variant strain...