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...beautiful quality of your tobacco." He grew eloquent in describing his tobacco-farming ancestors, the "backbreaking labor... honest work." He mentioned God and all the church-going families, and finally he was moved to suggest that there was no incompatibility between promoting good health and promoting a good tobacco crop. He even offered the idea that the Federal Government would continue its research "to make the smoking of tobacco even more safe than it is today...
...middle, once again, is Jimmy Carter, urging his Government to spread the gospel against cigarette smoking but at the same time telling the good folks who grow the leaf how nice it is that they have such a good crop. On the cigarette, for the moment, Carter stands for just about nothing...
...Jaws. Last year it was Star Wars, the most successful film of all time. This year it is Star Wars again. Sweeping into 1,700 theaters last month in the greatest rerun in history, it registered its biggest week ever, and is still outdrawing most of the current crop of new films. But some of those are also doing very well, including Grease, Heaven Can Wait, Jaws 2, Foul Play and Revenge of the Pink Panther. Hence Hollywood's ebullient summer...
When Hannifin landed at TIME in 1946, he recalls, commercial aviation was still the domain of a few strong-willed and innovative men who ran their fledgling airlines with a fierce competitiveness. Among them was C.E. Woolman, who started Delta Air Lines with a pair of Huff-Daland crop-dusting airplanes in Georgia. And Captain Eddie Rickenbacker-Hannifin calls him "great, truly fearless and fascinatingly irascible"-who built Eastern Air Lines by flying DC-3's to remote East Coast outposts along what he called "Tobacco Road" routes. Alexander G. Hardy, former Senior Vice President of National Airlines, once...
...oenology at California colleges. Don't give in to adversity, he adds. In his first year on his own, he was struck by an almost biblical series of plagues: early frost, freakish heat, then hepatitis. Friends in the valley pitched in to help him pick and press his crop. "You know," he muses, "people like to see you succeed. People like to see a family working together...