Word: utah
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...critics of the cigarette, notably the Federal Communications Commission, which earlier this year threatened to order all cigarette commercials off the air waves. Both the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission promised to drop their proposals for stern regulatory action if the industry could make its plan work. Utah Democrat Frank Moss, the nonsmoking Mormon who heads the consumer subcommittee and is the leading tobacco opponent in the Senate, said happily that "the dike has been broken...
...Senate cigarette foes, in fact, promise either to pass a tougher law or do nothing-and thus allow the regulatory agencies to impose almost any rules they please. Understandably, N.A.B. officials had been working on their blackout proposal for some time, and their announcement last week came soon after Utah Democrat Frank Moss, head of the Senate Consumer Subcommittee, sent telegrams advising them that they had better "do something" about smoking...
...fadeout can come fast enough to please the cigarette's most zealous opponents. Utah's Moss feels that the N.A.B. plan "may take too long." And he is anxious to move on to his next target: cigarette ads in printed media...
...this week's essay on "The Dilemma of Chemical Warfare," Senior Correspondent John Steele spent three weeks traveling across most of the U.S. Despite the secrecy that shrouds most CBW research, Steele managed to visit nearly every installation where such work is under way. He flew over the Utah salt flats to see the vast reach of the Dugway Proving Grounds; he went to the biological laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver, the scientific offices at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, and the huge storage depot at Tooele, Utah...
...company's management for his role in a bitter, late-19th century strike John L. quit school before he finished the eighth grade, and by age 15 he had followed his father to the pits. In Colorado he mined coal. Then it was copper in Montana, silver in Utah, gold in Arizona. In 1911, Lewis went to work for Samuel Gompers, then president of the American Federation of Labor and the greatest labor tactician of the era. Because he could back his sharp tongue with a strong, 210-lb. frame, Lewis soon became a labor organizer. Often, days...