Word: habitants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most part, however, tobacco-men profess confidence that the cigarette habit will not lose its hold on the public. The industry's largest producer, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem) is test-marketing in Southern California, New England and North Carolina a new king-size nonfilter cigarette called Brandon, which ambitiously aims to displace American Tobacco Co.'s Pall Mall as the top individual seller. And Philip Morris President Joseph F. Cullman 3rd gave some hint of how the industry hopes to fight the medical issue. He told his company's stockholders last week that...
Turning to corruption in Massachusetts, Gleason pointed to instances of "staggering greed" among State and Boston officials. With tongue in cheek, he praised the "ingenuity" of John J. McGrath a former city auctioneer. According to Gleason McGrath until a few weeks ago made a habit of selling city-owned real estate to himself. If not illegal, this was "a plain conflict of interest," asserted Gleason...
...though the election is still seven months away, much of the press is already talking of Nixon as a potential loser. Columnist Marquis Childs of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently compared Nixon to Thomas E. Dewey as a man with a losing habit...
...Challenge Habit. In the intellectual sense, Brandeis knows just what it is: "the challenge habit of mind" makes its classrooms crackle. Delighted with his students' "seriousness," one former Princeton professor hardly misses "the elaborate military deference found at Princeton, where the men would address you as 'sir' with an undertone of contempt." Engagement with issues in turn makes the students eager for social action and dissent. In the 21-campus Boston area, it often seems that every peace march or civil rights rally is led by Brandeis students. The student paper, The Justice, is perhaps the most...
...however, the drawing will go on the block after all. "A pretty stiff bargain," sniffed the Daily Herald, but then went on to decry the whole by-jingo fuss: "There is something slightly ridiculous about the present outburst of patriotic excitement to retain this Italian drawing, for the national habit is to get art on the cheap." The Herald might have added that the public's concern for the Leonardo was a rather blatant case of love at first sight. The drawing has long hung beyond public view in the academy's frayed Council Room...