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...worked sporadically while raising money in the conservative churches of east Texas for a campaign that would spend little more than $100,000. But his limitations were a virtue because his target was so big -- and so maculate. Jack Brooks, an ex-Marine who chomped on a cigar in his seat as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee long after the ashtrays were removed, could be a poster child for term limits. More liberal than his east Texas constituents on issues like civil rights, he had hung tenaciously to office, power, perks and pork by fiercely protecting his constituents' love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: A Pair of Giant Killers | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...indicator of the decline in school spirit is the falling attendance at football games. You know what? They're right, attendance has fallen--but that's about all that they're right about. In the '50s, school spirit probably could be measured by how many of the cigar-smoking, coat-and-tie wearing, all-male Harvard preppies went to football games...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: School Spirit Not Dead Yet | 11/19/1994 | See Source »

...last Ivy game on Saturday, Columbia's dream season took a step backwards with a close but no cigar 14-13 loss at Dartmouth...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Penn Wraps Up Ivy League Title Again | 11/9/1994 | See Source »

Apparently Ripper precipitated nuclear destruction when he became aware of the Communists' plan to destroy the free world through a program of strict water fluoridation. Hayden is brilliantly earnest, champing on a cigar, hand on Mandrake's knee, arm cozily around his shoulders, explaining how he thwarts the commies by drinking "only pure grain alcohol and rainwater," to maintain his purity of essence. "Women," he confides to the bewildered captain, "sense my power and seek my live essence. I don't avoid women, but I do deny them my essence...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: Explosive 'Strangelove' Dazzles | 10/27/1994 | See Source »

Bill Clinton enjoys wrapping his lips around an unlit cigar. A top source at a local tobacconist's claims the President "smokes" Hoyo De Monterre Excalibur 1s ... The FDA's David Kessler admits to collegiate pipe smoking ... Anti- tobacco Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) used to be a two-pack-a-day man ... Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia smoke cigars. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is a social cigarette smoker. At Clinton's Inauguration, he's rumored to have bummed a cigarette from Senator Wendell Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puff the Magic Bureaucrat! | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

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