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...black market. Even after German cigarette makers got back in production, smokers still craved the Virginia blends, as opposed to the Oriental blends favored by domestic manufacturers. But because of the price, only the rich could afford imported U.S. cigarettes, grandly passed them around as a status symbol. The British-American Tobacco Co., which sells American Tobacco's Lucky Strike brand in Europe, was the first to go into local-plant production. But West Germans can look forward to other inexpensive U.S. brands. R. J. Reynolds (Camels), Liggett & Myers (Chesterfields) and P. Lorillard (Kents, Old Golds) are all smoking...
Informed diplomats said some smaller nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization broadly support the British-American position. At the same time, they added, there is a considerable body of opinion among important European members of NATO, notably West Germany, which favors careful study of the Soviet proposals and which opposed any door-slamming acts by the alliance as a whole to the latest Soviet approaches...
...TIME for its polished reportage on the U.S. visit of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The visit itself and articles such as yours help to bring a "strengthening of the British-American friendship ties" which the Queen referred to at the President's banquet...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24--President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan called on their top aides today to begin immediate moves to pool British-American atomic and rocket resources for "greater service to the free world...
They pledged there would be no recriminations over spilt milk on either side and Eisenhower called British-American friendship the core of any free world alliance...