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...Soviet workers, a time set aside for them to light up their favorite smokes. Older Russians usually prefer a cigarette called papirosa-a pungent blend of black, sun-cured tobacco with a hollow paper mouthpiece. Younger Russians tend to smoke a Western-style (though stronger than U.S. brands) filter tip. Despite all the evidence linking it with lung cancer, heart disease and respiratory ailments, smoking has been rising steadily in the U.S.S.R. Alarmed by this threat to the nation's health, Soviet officials recently began a tough antismoking campaign that rivals the vigorous efforts in the West...
...because it's right and it's long overdue," Ann Kendall, chairman of the Committee to Ratify the ERA, said as she watched returns filter in last night...
...happens every year around this time. Harvard and Yale begin to filter toward the top of the division, a position so precariously held by the we'll-never-win-anything Bruins of Brown. A moment's reflection, and the realization crystalizes: The Game will again decide The Championship...
...male over 14 shyly admits to a little informal dark-of-night racing experience. California teen-agers get high on laughing gas; their peers in North Carolina prefer the 150 h.p. bursts of acceleration that a bottle of nitrous oxide delivers when attached to a sedan's air filter...
...hour crowds. By day they can be found pressing three-deep against the counters at Selfridge's or Harrods, the women often swathed in black gowns and veils, the men in Arab robes topped by checked sports jackets. At sunset they parade along Hyde Park. Toward midnight they filter out of Mirabelle, the Hard Rock Cafe or other favored Mayfair restaurants to stroll over to one of their discotheques or gambling clubs...