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...store continues to sell many types of cigars, pipes, and tobacco blends and countless smoking gadgets. Davidoff's Aniversario No. 1, at $19.00, is the most expensive cigar in the store, and there are pipes in the $300 dollar range...
Sadly, Cuban cigars fell victim over the years to socialist mismanagement. The island's wrapping handicraft declined, and its tobacco fields produced inferior leaf because they were no longer properly fertilized or allowed sufficient time to lay fallow. So uneven is the yield that two years ago, Switzerland's Davidoff company, which profited handsomely for decades from Fidel Castro's crop, pulled up its Cuban stakes...
Padron's challenge stems from a dispute with an ex-customer, Zino Davidoff of Geneva, whose company had been buying about 11 million of Cuba's 70 million cigars a year. Davidoff, 84, canceled the arrangement last year and shifted production to the Dominican Republic and Honduras. Fumes Davidoff: "The fact is, the Cubans don't produce the same quality anymore...
...wife that he was acting irrationally, police stopped him as he drove from his Rumson mansion and arrested him for carrying a semiautomatic rifle. The police said Mulheren, who has been treated for manic depression, seemed intent on killing Boesky and Boesky's former head trader, Michael Davidoff. Mulheren apparently thought they were linking him to the insider-trading scandal...
Union actions are scheduled for homecoming weekend, and a rally is planned for tomorrow's Cornell-Colgate football game, Davidoff said...