Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despite assurances that he had received, on the basis of early data, that they had leveled off -an anti-inflation sign he publicly welcomed two weeks ago. Price rises were announced for shoes, sheet glass, fertilizers and, despite Administration efforts to avert it, most cigarettes (a penny more a pack). Most worrisome of all was a half-percent rise in the crucial consumer price index for February, caused largely by spiraling meat, milk, poultry and vegetable costs. It was the largest increase for any February since 1951, and it came after several other monthly rises and on the heels...
...same date, French officers in NATO's two military headquarters at Rocquencourt and Fontainebleau must pack their duffel bags and go home to strictly French military duties...
...spoor sportsmanship, killing defenseless animals and all, but Nkrumah had made chimps of his soldiers too long, and they had lots of bones to pick. The animals, they decided, were fair game. So while Nkrumah sat in Conakry, turning himself into a Guinea pig and pondering whether he should pack his trunk and join his friend Nasser at his Nile perch, the boared soldiers decided what they needed was some good gnus. One night when they were all croc-ed, they turned the zoo into Nkrumah's Bar & Gorilla...
...decides to enter the novitiate. Roz, a worldly comedienne, retains her dignity through several assaults of whimsy that would shake a saint. In one dreary episode, she is conned into buying scanty costumes for the school band. In another, she sends a shy little nun off to help a pack of screaming girls shop for their first brassières. Director Ida Lupino lets Angels swing lowest when she introduces a lay teacher, clad in passionate purple, whose specialty is "interpretive movement." Gypsy Rose Lee plays the part with all the boop-de-doo phoniness a second-rate show deserves...
...Lorillard Co., the FTC's new stance seemed springtime fresh. Under the FTC ban on nicotine-tar advertising, Lorillard's Kent, once the runaway leader of the filter pack, has slipped from 11% of the filter market in 1958 to 5.9%, while the company's overall sales have gone from 1963's record $521 million to last year's $479 million. In both its Kent and Newport brands, Lorillard is pretty certain that it can outdo the field in low nicotine and tar content...