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...Dart Boards & Holidays. Last week the tobacco industry came in for fresh trouble. The government took disturbed note of the fact that manufacturers have more than matched the decrease in their advertising budgets with major expenditures-$84 million in 1966-on gift-coupon promotions. With coupon-bearing cigarettes now accounting for 55% of all sales, British smokers use the premiums to get everything from dart boards to Caribbean holidays and discount auto insurance. Rising in the House of Commons, Minister of Health Kenneth Robinson announced that the government would introduce legislation to abolish cigarette coupons, take additional steps "to control...
...feel like an ant on a dart board," says a young U.S. Marine at Gio Linh, the American artillery base carved out of the top of a hill overlooking North Viet Nam (see color opposite). The camp's main gate bids a black-humor welcome to "the Alamo of Viet Nam." Like neighboring Con Thien to the west, Gio Linh is the merest outstretched fingertip of the U.S. presence in Viet Nam, an isolated and vulnerable outpost less than two miles from the Demilitarized Zone. It lies in a no man's land that has become the bitterest...
...street and hosed with water, the chemical, which goes under the trade name "Rio-Trol," produces a surface ten times as slick as ice-and ten times as hard for rioters to walk on. Still in the early stage of experimentation by at least one company is a tranquilizer dart-a kind of instant Miltown-that could be fired from a distance, yet reduce any suspect to euphoric nonviolence...
Angling for the youth market, Watney's experimented with a swinging "discotheque pub" in London called the Bull Sheen in 1966. Since then, the company has opened six more, plans to set up others. And Grossman has found a ready market for the English pub-dart-board, half-pint mugs, Watney-Mann beer and all-overseas. Düsseldorfs Victoria was opened last week in a sort of tip-for-tap deal with local owners (Watney's supplies advice on "authentic" details, the pubs buy Watney-Mann's beer); more of them are planned for Madrid, Florence...
...Hootstein drilled another dart into the outfield, scoring Cobb...