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...efforts have been spared to make Teng feel at home. Both at Blair House, where he will stay in Washington, and in the White House itself, elegant brass spittoons have been set out and polished to accommodate his habit of frequent spitting. Downtown Washington will be decorated with American and Chinese flags hanging from light poles...
...like Vladimir Semyonov, 67, with whom Warnke dealt, the Soviet Union seemed a miracle that they do not want scorched or disfigured. Semyonov was a boy during the Revolution, lived through the Stalin terror, survived World War II. Warnke decided that this kind of pain is not habit forming in such...
Even before the report was released, the industry-funded Tobacco Institute denounced it as "more rehash than research" and asserted that the links between smoking and disease have not been proved conclusively. Institute Vice President Bill Dwyer accused Califano, who kicked his three-pack-a-day habit in 1975, of displaying "all the zeal of a reformed sinner." Added Dwyer: "America beware if Joe Califano ever gives up drinking or other pleasure pursuits, even the most intimate...
...Washington press conference, Califano noted that consumption of cigarettes dropped by three-tenths of 1% last year, which translates into 2 billion cigarettes. Though the percentage of Americans who smoke has been declining, 53.2 million still have the cigarette habit -about the same...
...comes down to this: I've made a habit of backing teams that raise extremely high hopes (delusions of grandeur?), but fall just short when it counts. Will being a Harvard hockey fan prove yet another frustrating exercise in masochism? I look forward to finding...