Word: palled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Coupons for Cash. Most prolific of all is the American Tobacco Co. (Pall Mall, Tareyton, Lucky Strike). Vowing "total war" to capture R. J. Reynolds' lead, American President Robert B. ("Barney") Walker, 53, has launched 20 new brands since he took over the company in mid-1963. Pall Mall, the leading non-filter, now comes in filter and menthol versions, as do Luckies. The company's Waterford boasts a moisture-laden filter, Sweet Caporal has an old name with a new tip, and Colony offers coupons exchangeable for cash or trading stamps. Among other brands being tested...
...launched Prince Albert pipe-tobacco cigarettes to match American's Half & Half filters, but dropped the brand as a failure. The main event is a new turn in the 40-year rivalry between Lucky Strikes and Reynolds' Camels, which are now the second-ranked nonfilters (after Pall Mall). Camel filters were introduced this year to compete with American's fast-growing Lucky filters, and a menthol version is ready to take on Lucky Strike Greens...