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...contraband Tarantel (tarantula) proclaims that it is "priceless," but for East Germans caught chuckling over the magazine's sledgehammer humor, the price can be a term in a Red prison. Despite its problems of distribution and retribution, Tarantel is a big success among East Germans. Reason: the butt of humor for Tarantel is East Germany's Communist government...
Deputy fire chief William Cremins said that the amount of the loss could not be immediately determined, but would run into the thousands of dollars. The fire evidently started from a cigarette butt smouldering in a couch in the Club's TV room...
Some of the effects of Milton's childhood remain evident today. He is extremely sensitive to personal relationships and, says an old Penn State colleague, he "pathetically wants to be liked." Similarly, the butt of his brothers' childhood jokes, he still dreads being laughed at, once suffered for weeks after being unexpectedly photographed at Key West, Fla., with a vacationing Ike, in gaudy shirt and short pants...
...eight finely wrought stories is Shady Hill, which could pass for many a commuting community in New York or Connecticut. The lawns and hedges are faultless, but there are cracks in the picture-window lives. In 0 Youth and Beauty!, a middle-aging onetime track star enlivens the soggy butt ends of party nights by running a hurdle race over the furniture. One night he falls and breaks his leg. Shortly after that, his wife accidentally shoots him, but not before the youth cult has robbed him of the will to live. In Just Tell...
Philip Morris (Parliament, Marlboro) and Lorillard (Kent, Old Gold) test all cigarettes down to a bare inch of butt. Other companies criticize this system because it produces higher tar yields for longer cigarettes. Another argument rages over what to report. American Tobacco measures "total solids" in smoke. Competitors have found that "solids" include tar, nicotine and some moisture; thus the advantage goes to American Tobacco's Hit Parade brand, whose tissue-paper-like filter absorbs more moisture than competing cellulose acetate filters. Hit Parade also claims "over 400,000 filter traps"; Lorillard says it could claim millions of traps...