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...call. Advertisers might term this subconscious motivation, but it is conscious aggravation to everyone else. And someone seems to open the hatch to the broadcast booth whenever the organist strikes up again. After three days of shouting over an uninterrupted commercial, ABC's Al Michaels, Tim McCarver and Jim Palmer must have been glad to get back to the relative quiet of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome...
PRINCETON, N.J.--The suspense is over. The Columbia football team gained collegiate gridiron immortality here at Palmer Stadium Saturday afternoon by falling to Princeton...
...Boston case concerned Joseph C. Palmer, of Newton, Mass., who smoked L& M cigarettes for 23 years. After he died of lung cancer in 1980 at age 64, Palmer's wife Ann and his mother jointly sued Liggett & Myers, charging that the company had failed to provide adequate warnings about the dangers of cigarette smoking. A U.S. district court judge ruled that the company could be held liable under Massachusetts state laws; that decision was overturned last week...
...part, American Brands (1986 net sales: $8.5 billion) was sued on grounds similar to those in the Palmer case by Verna Stephen, a Pensacola, Fla., resident. Her husband Andrew died in 1984 of pulmonary heart disease and cancer at age 64, after smoking Pall Malls for 54 years. Before the case could get under way, a U.S. district judge ruled on a pretrial motion that American Brands could argue that it is not liable under state consumer laws. On appeal, the Atlanta court upheld that ruling...
...cases were based. The federal warning provides uniform labeling of cigarettes, the courts reasoned, and was intended to balance concerns about the health of smokers against the economic benefits derived from domestic commerce in tobacco products. Said Judge John Brown for the first U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Palmer vs. Liggett & Myers: "It is inconceivable that Congress intended to have that carefully wrought balance of national interests superseded by the views of a single state, perhaps of a single jury in a single state...