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...that slashed toward the coast, cutting off the entire southern half of the island. The flames trapped busloads of tourists in the apple country and carloads of fleeing farmers; they swept into Hobart's suburbs, blowing up a dynamite factory, gutting a brewery, and raising a thick, acrid pall of smoke that shut down the Hobart airport. In fact, the fire wiped out three of the island's burgeoning industries: a brewery, a fish cannery and a carbide plant. Trees exploded in the heat. Gutted paddocks sent up a stench of incinerated livestock. Houses melted. Autos burst into...
...help from sales of non-tobacco products (Hawaiian Punch juice, Chun King foods). Despite the health furor, there is plenty of fire in the company's smokes. Its Camels and Salems remained at the top of their markets, while Winston edged out American Tobacco's Pall Mall for the first time as the best-selling brand of any kind...
...Cerf is keenly, folksily optimistic. He feels that there are positive forces at work too. "The trash market is always with us, but the thrill of dirty words and explicit sex episodes is a very evanescent one, and as the taboos drop, it is already beginning to pall. Today's writers are a great bunch. Out of that group will emerge the next Hemingway and Faulkner. You can't rush...
...state control of the economy and call for a more open attitude toward the Eastern-bloc nations. For another, both parties agree that they will dissolve the coalition before the 1969 elections and fight it out at the polls in the usual manner. Since government by committee tends to pall on hyperactive politicians of the German sort, clashes are sure to arise both within each party and between them. Two of the ministries that went to the Christian Democrats, for example, will be manned by bitter enemies who are intent on each other's political demise...
From Boston to Baltimore, smog's grey, grimy pall settled in for three days and nights, frightening residents with the specter of killer fogs such as those that had claimed up to 4,000 lives in London in 1952 and 240 in New York a year later. All the elements for another lethal siege were at hand...