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...allow diversification, and American Tobacco said it was "seriously studying a number of companies." At the same time, the industry is expanding into the tobacco business in foreign countries, where growth is faster and doctors are quieter. Lorillard is rolling its Kents and Newports in Hong Kong and Luxembourg, Liggett & Myers its L. & M.s in Mexico and Switzerland. Philip Morris has just opened Europe's most modern cigarette factory in Neuchátel, Switzerland...
...ancient birthplace of democracy. Ordinary counts, barons and prime ministers languished unnoticed in hotel lobbies; telephones and traffic alike broke down; and the bridegroom daily confronted a protocol officer's nightmare. The King and Queen of Belgium, the King of Norway, and the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg, for example, arrived on the same aircraft, requiring Constantine to march out to the plane and back three separate times for the ritual of greetings and national anthems...
...flying squads of vice presidents without serious preparation to make a crash decision in a matter of days. With time for only a ledger-eye view, they often wind up either buying nothing or buying unwisely. When the Monsanto Co. recently decided to set up a plant in a Luxembourg town, it discovered too late that the town has acute shortages of both water and labor-but the plant is under construction...
...French town of Apach, De Gaulle boarded the carnation-decked pleasure boat Strasbourg, along with West German President Heinrich Lübke and Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte, to begin the four-hour cruise along the Moselle to Trier, across the German border. There, De Gaulle hailed the project as one of "the first fruits" of the recent Franco-German rapprochement. After "so much pain to which this river was a sad witness for centuries," said he, "we have been able to sail down it together, without meeting any resistance except that of ribbons...
...banana dogs cost 50?, Norwegian loganberry punch 25?, and a 99? Belgian waffle covered with fresh whipped cream and fresh strawberries can be a meal in itself. Peptic athletes can eat Egg Foo Yumburgers, Fishwiches, and frankfurters packed in cornmeal, and wet it all down with Philippine beer. The Luxembourg, a restaurant the size of a closet, serves all the sausage-loaded country onion soup...