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...Marvels (recently reported by leading cancer researchers to be the nation's safest cigarette): a cut in tars from 8.6 mg. to 3.7 mg., and in nicotine, from .25 mg. to .13 mg. In another test conducted on about 100 blindfolded smokers, reminiscent of some of the more vivid cigarette ads of a generation ago, three-quarters reported that the filter either had no effect on taste or improved...
...contrasts are even more striking. San Francisco's North Beach was a study in black and white; the Haight-Ashbury is a crazy quilt of living color. Black was a basic color in the abstract-expressionist painting of the beats; hippiedom's psychedelic poster art is blindingly vivid. The progressive jazz of the beats was coolly cerebral; the acid rock of the hippies is as visceral as a torn intestine...
...national movement, the Wobblies lasted barely 50 years, but they made it a lively half-century. Their story is sufficiently rich and vivid to survive even the unfortunate cast of academic language employed by the author, a British scholar and an editor of the Oxford Times. To some extent, the Wobblies were the progenitors of today's New Left. They shared the same detestation of contemporary society and the same desire to build a better world...
RICHARD STRAUSS: THE LIFE OF A NONHERO, by George R. Marek. The great romantic composer is viewed amidst a vivid evocation of cultural life in Germany-whose decay and upheaval after World War I, argues the author, was the cause of Strauss's disappointing later output...
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Mo.) Edward K. ("Duke") Ellington, D.MUS., composer, bandleader. Sol M. Linowitz, LL.D., U.S. Ambassador to the OAS, former chairman of the executive committee, Xerox Corp. James A. Michener, D.LET., novelist. Vivid chronicler of war and peace, of brave savages and flinty purveyors of civilization...