Word: imported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After ramrodding General Tire for 45 years, W.O. is not ready to retire. That was not the import of last week's shifts. While Jerry gets his feet wet in the presidency, his father will still be around asking questions like "Why the hell aren't you fellows making more money...
Then one day he visited the Vincennes zoo. There he learned that 600 varieties of mammals are facing extinction; no species have already disappeared from earth just since 1800. Matta was relatively young (30), making $280 a month in an export-import firm in Paris, and marked for advancement. But he never hesitated. He threw over both present prosperity and future prospects to take a $160-a-month job as superintendent of the 2,000,000-acre Bouna game reserve, 500 miles upcountry from Abidjan...
Wonton-sized Nancy Ka Shen Kwan (5 ft. 2 in., 104 lbs.) is the most delicate Oriental import since Tetley's tender little tea leaves. Last week 2O-year-old Nancy was before the cameras in London filming The World of Suzie Wong, and from the first frame the part fitted like her own freckles. Furthermore, the new "yum-yum girl" has saved the movie...
...leafed tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum) became known as "the divine herb" and "the princess of plants." But the foes of tobacco spied the devil's hoofs beneath the princess' skirt. King James I of Great Britain called tobacco "the lively image and pattern of hell," slapped on a big import tax. Louis XIII of France and Czar Michael I decreed penalties for smoking, ranging from death to castration, and Pope Urban VIII threatened excommunication for anyone found smoking in church or on church premises. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, attacked tobacco on grounds of health...
...that is the import of these five questions, 'the separation of Church and State' is indeed in very serious trouble, not so much from the Roman Catholic hierarchy with its inept political maneuvers, but from the priests and prophets of the new idolatry...