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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adzope happens to be a little bigger and richer and more important than most of the other towns. It prides itself as an important center for cocoa, coffee, and bananas. MG trucks load up in the surrounding forest with giant teak and mahogany logs for the export market. The town is the administrative seat for the surrounding sous-prefeture--a government unit including about 65,000 people. There are four sizable schools, bureaucratic offices, chain stores, a post office...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: The Ivory Coast: Old and New Exist in Awkward Mixture | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...opportunities that devaluation affords for selling more cheaply abroad. Many, in fact, have actually raised their prices. Scotch distillers pumped prices up 11.5%, dye sellers 16.7%. Even when letting their prices fall with the pound, some exporters have stopped short of full value, gauging what the traffic will bear. MG-maker British Motors, for example, reduced prices 12% in Europe, but only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Market: Britain's Sad Plight | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...MG--Tom Schmidt, Yale...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Six Gridders Take All-Ivy Honors; Chiofaro's Selection Is Unanimous | 12/14/1967 | See Source »

Kent 85 mm. F 17.4 mg. 1.09 mg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco: Tar, Nicotine & Butts | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

There were other gripes, too. The American Tobacco Co. complained that the 23.1 mg. of tar reported for its 100-mm. Pall Mall filters was based on an old version replaced in October by an improved filter that yields less than 21 mg. For all the huffs, however, Magnuson is going ahead with plans to urge retailers to display the rankings at cigarette counters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco: Tar, Nicotine & Butts | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

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