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Haig was ready to board this flying cigar tube when the Congressmen's 707 developed engine trouble and they switched to a smaller DC 9. Haig then decided to wait 14 hours for an engine change on the 707, which he finally boarded at 3 a.m. Said an aide: "After all, the British fleet was not going to get to the Falklands by morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flight Delay | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

DIED. Nathan f. Twining, 84, tenacious, cigar-chomping Air Force general who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960; in San Antonio. A World War II commander of U.S. air campaigns in Europe and the South Pacific, Twining was an unfaltering proponent of airpower and military might. B-29s under his command dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 12, 1982 | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...strange shadows the subject matter casts. Written by Marc Blitzstein in the depths of the depression. Cradle paints the struggles of infant unionism through a severe but jazzy stylization. The single piano hammers in the background as the residents of "Steeltown, U.S.A." battle the manipulations of the inexorable, cigar-chomping "Mister Mister" (David Reiffel). Mister Mister owns the factories and the town newspaper and heads the union-busting Liberty Committee, his wife bribes the preacher to fan war hysteria so steel prices will stay high, while his henchman track down dirt on the heroic labor-organizers who are trying...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Labor and Love | 3/18/1982 | See Source »

...works, mostly depictions of chairs and cigar boxes as well as two portraits, have drawn significant attention from Tommy's customers...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Lowell Senior's Artworks Adorn Tommy's Lunch | 3/10/1982 | See Source »

...confirm that the Cuban existed. Perhaps the distinguished members of the press would be interested in a Nicaraguan prisoner-a commandante?Outside the room, ABC Producer Frank Manitzas performed a little skit, complete with Cuban accent: "Sure he was a Cuban. There he sat, with a big black cigar in his mouth, and said, 'Oye, chico-got a light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Searching for Bang-Bang | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

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