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...cigarette maker did the same. R. J. Reynolds changed the filter on its Winston brand until in 1957 it let through 3.8 milligrams of nicotine, 22 milligrams of tar v. 3 milligrams of nicotine, 22 milligrams of tar for unfiltered king-size Chesterfield. The percentages are similar for Marlboro, Viceroy, Tareyton, Parliament and the rest of the popular filters. Net effect: "The public has paid premium prices of 2? to 6? per pack . . . for 'protection' they did not receive...
Flying off to Pakistan at week's end, Harold Macmillan took with him the cheering knowledge that the British are today more popular in India than ever before. Little more than ten years since Britain's viceroy ruled in New Delhi, British residents in India are more numerous (40,000) than they were in the last days of Empire, and, thanks to the new spirit of equality, enjoy far pleasanter relations with their Indian colleagues. As for the Indians themselves, they show surprisingly little resentment of the fact that Britons still control 80% of all foreign investments...
...married to a distinguished architect (designer of New Delhi, London's Cenotaph and Liverpool Cathedral). She belonged to a famed English family: grandfather was Statesman-Novelist Bulwer-Lytton (Harold, Last of the Saxon Kings, Rienzi, The Last Days of Pompeii), and her father, first Earl of Lytton, was Viceroy of India (1876-80). There came a day in 1910 when Emy, then 36, no longer knew what to do with herself. Every male reader with an underemployed female relative will feel his heart sink at the news that "I read various works on sociology . . . This led to my joining...
Slipped Pretense. But Russia kept the drums of war rolling. Pointedly, the Kremlin named Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, "the hero of Stalingrad" and former Red viceroy of Poland, to command Russian troops on the Turkish frontier, and announced that "atomic maneuvers" had been conducted. (The West retaliated with an announcement that NATO had decided to hold land, sea and air exercises on Turkey's "southwestern coast," i.e., in the direction of Syria, beginning this week...
...confederation's second congress last week, he burst into an impassioned defense of the featherbedding privileges that the workers took for their own after bringing the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.) to power in 1952. He demanded death for the Eder program ("He speaks the language of the English viceroy in India"), and an end to wage ceilings. In the wake of the speech the boliviano took its first serious flutter in recent months...