Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reynolds, Liggett & Myers and American Tobacco all reported lower first-quarter sales, the report of Consolidated Cigar Corp. came out as rosy as the tip of a well-lit 75-center. Consolidated, the largest of the some 500 U.S. cigar makers (with 25% of all sales), showed an 18.7% hike in sales for the quarter and seems certain to surpass 1963's record $123 million...
...road far enough, it leads to the end of free collective bargaining. I don't propose that labor at any time agree to go down this road." U.A.W. President Reuther made it quite clear that he has not changed his mind about demanding at least a 4.9% wage hike this year...
...professionalism. Most any time he was good for some congenial argument, a $1,000 night of poker, a pungent wisecrack. Jack Kennedy made him a frequent target for teasing, and Pierre never seemed to mind it: "Plucky Pierre," they called him. When he refused to keep a pledge to hike 50 miles, Pierre explained: "I may be plucky, but I ain't stupid...
...party wore madras shorts, sneakers, and apprehensive faces. They carried pocketbooks, transistor radios, straw baskets with food enough to fatten all the pheasant in the heather. New and old hands alike, 85 in all, were part of California's famed Sierra Club, out for a day's hike through the mountains. Their leader, a gangling Sierra surveyor, bluntly laid down the law: no straggling behind, no getting ahead, no smoking, no chewing gum wrappers tossed along the trail. No dogs. And put away those transistor radios...
...event was a simple outing, superficially nothing more than a Sunday hike in the woods. But for Sierra Clubbers such outings have a deeper meaning. They fear that on some still far distant Sunday there may well be no woods left to hike in, and they return from each expedition more determined than ever to prevent that day from coming. "Is it a religion?" one Sierra Clubber was asked last week. "In a way," he answered, "it surely...