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Banzhaf quit his law firm (one of its clients was Philip Morris) and moved to a Washington flat five blocks from the headquarters of the Tobacco Institute, the industry's Washington lobby. He organized a nonprofit foundation called ASH (for Action on Smoking and Health), which monitors radio and TV to see that antismoking ads are shown and distributes information on smoking and health. Bachelor Banzhaf is authorized to draw a salary of $20,000 a year but manages to get by without it, living on his salary as an instructor at George Washington University Law School...
...other members of the council include: Roy L. Ash, president of Litton industries, who will be chairman of the Council; John B. Connally, former governor of Texas; Frederick R. Kappel, chairman of the executive committee of American Telephone and Telegraph; and Richard M. Paget, a member of the New York consulting firm of Cresap, McCormick and Paget...
There will be no quota on the number of men who can eat at the Center, located at 6 Ash Street, near the Loeb Drama Center. Radcliffe students have been allowed to eat lunch on interhouse for several years. Lunch hours are from...
Benefit Appearance.Pompidoumean-while has begun acting like a campaigner. He and his ash-blonde wife Claude no longer vacation with the Côte d'Azur dolce vita set. Instead, they visit the staid Atlantic Coast or their country home at Cajarc in Lot, where Pompidou is photographed talking to the peasants. At the same time, he is subtly disengaging himself from unpopular De Gaulle positions. Though he agreed with the Israeli embargo, he did not like De Gaulle's innuendo that Jews unduly influenced the French press. Pompidou also believes, in light of Russian intransigence over Czechoslovakia...
Into the Zendo. The day at Tassajara begins at 4:40 a.m. with the sound of a tinkling hand bell and the han-a length of ash planking that is struck with a wooden mallet. Students must report to the zendo (meditation hall) by 5. As each person enters the zendo, he bows to the platform that holds the Buddha, burning incense, the roshi and Zen priests. After removing his shoes, the student arranges his zafu (black cushion), adopts the lotus position, and meditates for 40 minutes...