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...king-size brands, Chesterfield was able to get 1? more for its king by proving it costs more to make. As a result, in spite of the higher cost, the extra penny gives Liggett & Myers an estimated additional profit margin (before taxes) of ¼? per package. This was a cogent reason why other makers, despite denials, might follow Chesterfield's lead in "kinging" their top brands. And what the move emphasized most was the growing popularity of long cigarettes, whose share of the total market has zoomed from 9% in 1950 to about 16% this year, while sales...
...have yet to see a more trenchant and cogent treatment of Southern politics and the American party system than that which appeared in your cover story on Dick Russell [TIME, May 19]. A first-rate piece of political analysis...
...years ago, but this time he brought a fifty page point-by-point refutation statement with him. From the opening hearing Committee members peppered Lattimore with a series of disjointed questions, they refused him the right to qualify statements or even to give personal opinions; Chairman McCarran struck cogent remarks from the record with an air of irresponsible abandon. In three and a half hours, Lattimore was able to read only four and a half paragraphs of his statement...
...only want to go out for football as a two-month game. But it can be defended as a way of giving coaches more time to build a competent football team without having to buy all-star high school players, and the latter argument seems at least as cogent as the former ones...
...well with American universities, according to the latest issue of New Republic, out this week. The magazine has devoted a 14-page section to chronicling the woes of our institutions of higher education through an introductory lament and seven cogent, generally well-document complaints...