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The problem is important because filters are largely responsible for the new boom in cigarettes. After a sharp dip in 1953-54, when medical tests indicating a cancer-cigarette link were widely publicized, sales have come back to hit a new record this year (see chart). Smokers worried about tar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THOSE CIGARETTE CLAIMS | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

Under gnarled old trees in a quiet olive grove on the inland side of Beirut's strategic International Airport, officers of the U.S. Army's 187th Airborne Battle Group were working on a battle plan. They were ready, if called upon, to roll up the Basta, a Moslem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Restrained Power | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Alaska's biggest business is fishing (1957 take: $93 million), which is controlled by Seattle packers, supervised by an absentee government-and this outside control is the pet hate of Alaska statehooders. They claim that it weakens the Alaskan labor market by bringing in outsiders for half its 25...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Land of Beauty & Swat | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Double Splash. After getting a rare permit from the Australian government to catch platypuses, which are rigidly protected, Fleay made 22 sorties from his home in West Burleigh, Queensland. Tramping along the streams in a moving cloud of mosquitoes, he watched for the ripples stirred by swimming platypuses and listened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Have Platypuses, Will Travel | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

Traps and trap setters were not even camouflaged. For four weeks three of the committee's Republicans-Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nebraska's Carl Curtis and South Dakota's Karl Mundt had been leading the committee thorough the bitter history of the U.A.W.'s, fruitless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Soft Sell | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

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