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Coffin. Mauriac's antismoking campaign was inspired by Mayor Augustin Chauvet (who has not smoked in years) and gleefully promoted by ORTF, the state-run TV-radio network. To launch the crusade, a four-man team of psychologists and doctors held five days of meetings designed to wean the Mauriaquois from their smokes. At one gathering, Team Member Dr. Jean Pinet passed a miniature coffin around the audience. "Put your cigarettes in it," he exhorted, "or they'll put you in one." Other experts showed graphic films of the cancerous lungs of heavy smokers. The propaganda convinced many townspeople...
...Hanover there will be 40 rowers competing for 12 positions, as Parker will seek out the best individual oarsmen to make up one eight-man and one four-man boat...
Parker figures the competition at the camp will be intense, and plans to center the selection process around seat-racing procedures. The 40 competitors will race in four-man boats to weed out the lesser oarsmen...
Cunard was "99½% sure" that the call was a hoax, Chairman Victor Matthews reported later. Nevertheless the company procured the cash in Manhattan and waited for a second call, which never came. Meanwhile, at an R.A.F. base in Wiltshire, England, a four-man bomb-disposal team climbed aboard a long-range Hercules transport and strapped on parachutes. When the plane made its rendezvous with the liner 1,400 miles west of England in the Atlantic, the men plummeted through the clouds and rain to land close beside a waiting launch...
Last summer, the lightweights traveled to Europe and continued their strive. In England at the Henley Cup races, both the eight and the four-man boats triumphed--the first time that American contestants had taken both titles in the history of the competition...