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...became Surgeon General last year, says that the Reagan Administration backs the report and is committed to alert people to the hazards of smoking. In that effort he is counting mostly on the public's common sense. Says he: "If I were a smoker of a pipe, cigar or cigarette and were reasonably intelligent and had read this report, I would long since have quit." Indeed, Koop once did smoke a pipe, but, setting a good example, he gave it up ten years ago. -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported by Jeanne Saddler/Washington and Nancy Pierce Williamson/New York
...only psychological revelation in Alice Neel's painting of Roosevelt was that beneath the facade of charm was a shrewd politician with eyes as calculating and cold as a cigar-store Indian...
...REPUBLICAN commercial from the 1980 campaign made the point well; a Tip O'Neill look alike sitting in an oversized limousine munched on a fat cigar. While the fellow in the next seat cried out one plaintive warning after another. O'Neill sat in a happy oblivion. And the car, like the country his party had led for so long, sputtered to a halt stranded in a desert. The election results gave unequivocal testimony to the effectiveness of the advertisement. After half a century as America's party of ideas, the Democrats seemed unable to deal with the realities...
When the World Airways DC-10 skidded off the runway at Logan International Airport and into Boston Harbor, the aircraft's nose section was sheared off like the tip of a roughly clipped cigar. Don Welsh, 25, a dental student at Tufts University, who was seated in the front cabin, suddenly found himself covered with spray and looking out at the harbor. Soon he and other passengers were pulling the flight crew out of the water. Welsh saw someone splashing ten or 20 yards to his left, well out of his reach. Then the person disappeared. Welsh told...
Meanwhile, weeks of behind-the-scenes sniping between Volcker and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan burst into the open during separate appearances before a congressional committee. In testimony to the Joint Economic Committee, the towering, cigar-smoking Fed chairman argued that the Administration was following a loose fiscal policy that threatened to push budget deficits into triple-digit figures, and said that interest rates had begun to rise simply in anticipation of the Government's gargantuan borrowing requirement for later this year...