Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even Death. Last week the most publicized test case so far got under way at a pretrial hearing in Massachusetts. Mounting the attack was an outspoken, cigar-chewing attorney named Joseph Oteri. A 36-year-old ex-Marine captain who currently serves as counsel for the National Association of Police Officers, Oteri is not the sort usually expected to be behind such causes, but the marijuana law "gripes me," he explains. "The hazards of marijuana are a myth." As a means of proving it, he took on the defense of Ivan Weiss and Joseph Leis, two college dropouts charged with...
...Last Cigar. Or take the case of Walter Margulies, 53, an industrial designer from Scarsdale, N.Y., who caught a 602-lb. swordfish on 80-lb.-test line...
...experience of New York Attorney Frank Bramm, who connected off Montauk. Bramm battled the fish for two hours, skillfully thwarting his every stratagem. At last he maneuvered him to within 10 ft. of the boat. Leader up! Ready to gaff! At that point, Bramm was so excited that the cigar tumbled from his teeth and-Poing!-burned through the fiddletaut line...
...Brussels. A short, stocky Belgian, Magritte called himself a "secret agent," alluding to the disparity between appearance and reality in both his life and art. He painted as he dressed, mostly in banker's black and grey, composing his scenes with photographic accuracy. But what impish fantasies: cigar boxes puffing smoke, a leaden sky raining tiny, bowler-hatted figures, the leaning tower of Pisa buttressed by a feather, Botticelli's Primavera superimposed on the back of a businessman's overcoat. "People are always looking for symbolism in my work," he once said. "There is none. Mystery...
...Gulf & Western Industries, having further broadened its diversified operations (auto parts, mining, chemicals) by acquiring Paramount Pictures last year, moved into consumer products for the first time by reaching an agreement to buy out Consolidated Cigar, the nation's biggest cigar maker (Dutch Masters, El Producto, Muriel), in a $150 million stock swap. At the same time, Gulf & Western's young (40), acquisitive chairman, Charles Bluhdorn, sweetened his company's stock offer for E.W. Bliss Co., an Ohio-based tool-equipment manufacturer that, like Consolidated, had 1966 sales of about $158 million. If the Bliss deal goes...