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Many New Yorkers with sons in Vietnam, or merely conscious of where their tax money was going, have apparently been impressed by the Mayor's willingness to take a stand on this national issue. In contrast to New Jersey Gubernatorial candidate Robert Meyner's similar preachings, Lindsay's anti-Vietnam statements were not produced solely for the occasion of the campaign; he alone of the nation's big-city mayors has taken a steady and unhedging stand against...
...their own industry's self-imposed Cigarette Advertising Code, cigarette salesmen have just about been reduced to saying that a smoke is only a smoke. Among the many guidelines and prohibitions set by both the FTC and the code, as administered by former New Jersey Governor Robert Meyner, was one against advertising claims of low nicotine and tar content...
...sooner had the FTC announced its turnabout than Lorillard told Code Administrator Meyner that it would no longer feel obliged to observe the code, at least so far as the restriction on nicotine and tar talk went. At word of Lorillard's defection, Meyner quickly secured repledges of allegiance from eight other major cigarette companies, said that no immediate changes in the industry's code were contemplated...
Died. Balfour Bowen Thorn Lord, 58, Democratic Party chief in New Jersey since 1961 and chairman for 17 years of powerful Mercer County (which includes Trenton), a skillful organizer who in 1954 was widely credited with electing Governor Robert B. Meyner after ten years of Republican rule, but proved less successful himself in 1960 when he ran for the U.S. Senate against Clifford Case, losing by 335,861 votes (while President Kennedy won the state by 22,091), after which he helped his former law partner Richard Hughes win the governorship in 1962; by his own hand (depressed...
...Meyner-who will work part-time for an undisclosed salary-will have authority to filter out ads that are pitched to youngsters or suggest that smoking promotes success, social acceptance, health or virility. His first act was to put in a word for the sponsors: "I think it is rather remarkable that people with a great deal of self-interest have set up a code that goes so far. I feel it can be enforced." To help him handle cigarette makers who would rather fight than switch, he can levy fines up to $100,000. Meyner, once a heavy smoker...