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Back home in Cumberland, Maine's cigar-chomping ex-Republican Governor Horace Hildreth, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, amiably tried to bulldoze a baby elephant, flown to the U.S. as a gift from some of Hildreth's Pakistani admirers. If Amateur Mahout Hildreth can polish up by August, his pet may accompany him then to the G.O.P. National Convention in San Francisco as an alternate to an alternate delegate...
...revising his plan for the London embassy. A girl in his office, whose desk Saarinen sometimes uses late at night, inevitably knows when he has been there. Says she: "It's like slicing down through the excavations at Troy-tracing paper, tobacco, paper, paper, matches, more paper, a cigar stub, paper, paper, paper...
...synthetic leaf, called HTL (for "homogenized tobacco leaf," was first developed by General Cigar Co., fourth biggest U.S. cigar maker. Now in use in General Cigar's bestselling nickel brands, Robert Burns Cigarillos and William Penn cigars, HTL is rapidly finding its way into more expensive cigars. Virtually every other U.S. cigar and cigarette maker is either experimenting with "reconstituted" tobacco or actually using it. The new process is not only stirring the biggest technical shake-up in the industry since cigarettes; it has already greatly altered the market for raw tobacco, U.S. farmers' sixth most valuable cash...
Fantastic Acceptance." General Cigar claims "fantastic consumer acceptance" for HTL, which is used in place of conventional "binder," the layer of tobacco (12% of the cigar) that is sandwiched be tween inside "filler" and outer "wrapper." General has already licensed its process to other U.S. and foreign cigar makers, many of whom expect HTL to cut the cost of 10? cigars by 40? per 100. American Machine & Foundry Co. has developed another process for homogenized tobacco binder, also has patents on machines to turn out man-made leaf, which cigarette makers shred for filler. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels...
...major advantage of homogenization is that scraps and stems (up to 30% of the leaf) that are now discarded can be pulverized, mixed with a cellulose adhesive and squeezed out in continuous rolls. For both cigar and cigarette makers, man-made leaf means a big cut in the cost of handling, grading and curing tobacco. Cigar makers who have switched to HTL binder can use imperfect broad-leaf (costing only 30? per lb. v. high-grade broadleaf costing up to 60?), find they need 50% less tobacco. Southern growers are complaining that use of man-made leaf in cigarettes will...