Word: marlboro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nutcracker Man relates to his predecessor as, say, Marlboro Man relates to Viceroy Man. The lines of development are clear: Marlboro Man was a rough, inarticulate and profoundly simple specimen, setting the tone for the advertising in the era known as the Eisenhower Fifties. Viceroy Man is suave, and cultivated, and knows how to talk and drink with Harvard professors be meets in Washington. He is the figure of the Kennedy Sixties...
...called St. Pius X Belated Vocation Seminary,* it will occupy a 145-acre tract in Marlboro, 28 miles from Boston. It will train men mostly in their 405 and 503 who have college degrees and experience in law, medicine and teaching. Candidates for the priesthood will be accepted from all over the world, and Cardinal Gushing hazards no guesses as to their numbers, though an estimated one in 50 priests has a "delayed vocation." Among notable examples: Cardinals Newman (45) and Manning (42). No upper age limit will be set at the new seminaries. Says Cardinal Gushing: "The response...
BESTSELLING CIGARETTE is Pall Mall, according to Printers' Ink survey. Pall Mall overtook Camel, which dropped to No. 2. Salem moved up from seventh in 1959 to sixth, Marlboro from tenth to ninth. The 1960 order: Pall Mall, Camel, Winston, Lucky Strike, Kent, Salem, Chesterfield, L & M, Marlboro, Viceroy...
Even headier are the big dreams at Vermont's tiny Marlboro College, founded in 1946 on three old farms in the Green Mountains. "We don't fit any stereotype," says President Thomas Ragle, 32, who came to teach and became president instead. Ragle is looking for "the creative intellectual, who may or may not score high on college boards." Not even accredited yet. Marlboro makes every student take a two-day, 16-hour comprehensive exam covering all fields. Flunkers may try again, but must pass to graduate. Also required: a rigorous research project so independently pursued that...
...popularity with musicians, Marlboro winds up in the red every year. Nevertheless, Director Serkin refuses either to make his school more commercial or shift it to a more accessible location...