Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smith came up against a police force commanded by a tough, no-nonsense Italian-American named Dominick A. Spina, 56, who won repute on the virtues that mark the best of American law-enforcement officers: personal courage and political neutrality. A stocky, cigar-chomping man with steely grey hair and temperament, he heads a 1,400-man force that is heavily Italian, but-according to city officials-includes some 400 Negroes as well. Until last week, Spina could claim the ultimate satisfaction in police work: without undue harshness or permissiveness, merely by enforcing the law as it is written...
...Association of Music Merchants. One manufacturer alone (Vox, a subsidiary of Thomas Organ Co.) displayed 64 electronic instruments and gadgets. Some of the most notable-or at least most audible-new products on view: >The Conn Corp.'s "multi-vider," a transistorized digital computer the size of a cigar box, which, when hooked up to an amplifier and a microphone in a wind instrument, enables the musician to play as loudly as he wishes. He can also duplicate his notes over as many as four octaves, add reverberation or tremolo, and lighten or darken his tone quality...
Tobacco is a basic tool of learning. It soothes a mind boggling at books, smoothes the heartbeat, quiets the nerves. A man can gather information without books, but to digest it without tobacco is purest folly. Knowledge fills the mind; a good cigar expands...
Cliffies object to the smell. "You smoke a good cigar," retorts the manager of Leavitt and Peirce, "you get a good smell." Ban bad cigars...
...part a man from his trusty weed. The new rule will make it impossible to study in Hilles. It effectively limits the library's use to furtive forays in search of dates. And even that may end. A woman, as they say, is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke...