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Word: kit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Make Your Own World" is a delightful teaching aid that Coca-Cola includes in its new ecology kit, a promotional giveaway for school boards. To date, Coke bottlers have distributed 4,000 kits nationwide, and every teacher who has seen it wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Real Thing | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...heavily promote­new brands. In recent weeks, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco has brought out Vantage, American Brands has introduced Maryland 100s, and Philip Morris has put on the market wintergreen-flavored New Leaf. The most unusual new item is Brown & Williamson's Laredo, which is a $2 kit that includes tobacco, paper, filters and a roll-your-own machine. It is fast finding favor among weekend pot smokers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: What Happens When The Marlboro Man Leaves | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...tailor-made cigarettes are so easily available. Prices for those tailor-mades, however, have zoomed. (In New York, a pack now sells for 55? to 65?, in San Francisco, 40? to 50?.) To fight that rise, the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. has now hit the streets with Laredo, a kit that might be called the Rolls-Royce of cigarette-rolling machines. Fast, efficient and all but completely foolproof, it turns out a filter cigarette in less than a minute. Included in the outfit are tobacco, specially made papers and filters, the rolling machine and even 20-butt packets (which, curiously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Rolling Your Own | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

Funky: solid, warm ("That's a pretty funky jacket, Kit Carson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Right On Is Off And Other Hiplingua News | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

Some executives assert that the public is not interested in paying for products that reduce pollution. General Motors, for example, has just spent $50,000 to promote and test-market in Phoenix a $20 exhaust-emission control kit for pre-1968 models. Out of 334,000 owners of such cars in the area, only 528 bought the kit. (Chrysler, on the other hand, reports brisk sales of a similar kit for its cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Promoting Nature's Friends | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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