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...Raytheon ads stated that the company's Amana air conditioner "takes only minutes to go from carton to cooling." The only evidence it gave the FTC was a copy of the installation manual and an admission that the length of time it would take to put in the air conditioner could "vary from person to person...
TOBACCO. Cigarettes, which can be brought back to the U.S. in "reasonable" quantities, are priced lowest at the duty-free shops in Shannon, Johannesburg and Tokyo ($2.40 per carton). Elsewhere they cost 25? to $1 more. Caution: locally manufactured versions of many U.S. brands are sold in parts of Europe and Africa. To some Americans they do not taste the same as their regular smokes. The point of manufacture is printed on each carton...
...putting Rototillers, aboard army trucks borrowed for an afternoon from ARVN," wrote TIME's Rauch. "Those who had time to pack chose peculiar things to salvage: one family had a refrigerator in a wheelbarrow, nothing else. A lieutenant carried an enormous Sanyo sound system, still in its carton and minus the speakers, strapped to the back of his motorbike. Nearly everyone seems to have a pig. Pigs are strapped onto Honda seats, pigs are tied onto front bumpers, pigs hang in wire cages from tail gates and are slung from poles that peasants and their wives heft onto their...
...either by barring the shops to passengers traveling between Market countries, or by imposing a limit (perhaps $150) on duty-free purchases. But no one needs to fear a quick disappearance of $3.50 per quart Cutty Sark Scotch (at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport) or Gauloises at $1.75 a carton (at Paris' Orly). Market officials will not act at all before the end of 1973, if then...
...various ways, the book suggests again that My Lai was no isolated incident. Glasser tells of one old Vietnamese casually shot because he would not give up the carton of Cokes he was carrying on his bicycle. Other gestures are simply the dreadful protocols of war: after a bloody fight, helicopter pilots gathered the dead North Vietnamese in cargo nets and flew off to dump them in the path of the retreating enemy...