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Cigarette smoking may indeed be hazardous to health, as that little sign on each packet warns. Quitting can be equally risky. TIME Writer Bob McCabe, a three-pack-a-day smoker, suffered through a 13-day Caribbean "Stop-Smoking Cruise" that ended last week. His ill-tempered report...
...crew haircut, and he keeps telling us to share our feelings. One addict, Arthur, admits that he has half a pack in his pocket. "Put it on the table," the doctor suggests. Reluctantly, he does. As we watch, horrified, a sincere young mod named Lana picks up the packet and shreds the cigarettes. Shaken, we head for our bunks...
...Cubists' subject matter was drawn from the life they lived as virtually penniless men-in studios, on the street, or swigging a marc at some cafe. The packet of cigarette papers in a Braque, the jug in a Juan Gris or the boxy village houses hemmed by bulging trees that Leger painted in 1914 could be taken for granted as subjects; their anonymity not only connected them to ordinary life but also focused a viewer's attention on what was happening within a new language of painting...
...charge on the 57-year-old Italian immigrant. Indeed, Carrozzi, who speaks little English, did not even know it was marijuana. After a heart attack four years ago, Carrozzi testified at his trial last week, he visited his native village, Camarda in the Abruzzi Mountains and brought back a packet of canapa seeds. Camardans, he recalled from his youth, used canapa fibers to make thread and cloth. Its seeds are used in soups and candies. "The kids," Carrozzi related, "used to carry them in their pockets and eat them like peanuts." Ironically, only the leaves are thrown away...
...approaches is one that we have announced recently and will be available through dealers for all pre-1968 models. It amounts to changing the vacuum advance on the distributor with a high temperature override so it won't overheat. This total packet has been announced on our dealer list for $9.05 plus labor...