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...smoked in years) and gleefully promoted by ORTF, the state-run TV-radio network. To launch the crusade, a four-man team of psychologists and doctors held five days of meetings designed to wean the Mauriaquois from their smokes. At one gathering, Team Member Dr. Jean Pinet passed a miniature coffin around the audience. "Put your cigarettes in it," he exhorted, "or they'll put you in one." Other experts showed graphic films of the cancerous lungs of heavy smokers. The propaganda convinced many townspeople to crush out their Gauloises and pledge, "I'll never smoke again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detente Stops at Home | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

Well, chillun, we done got us a new "God". 'Matter of fact, we done got us a whole flock of swell new "Gods". Yesterday the names of Brother Pinet, Norton, Schuette and McIntyre were entered in the Good Book. Anyway may they lead us in righteousness through the paths of Heaven and Disbursing, with an everlastin' light from Baker Hall. Seriously, with Sherwood, Swanger, Custer, Smith, Williams, and Prussing on their "staff", we look forward to a semester of military leadership as fine as the "step-downers" have been, and with the benefit of much additional "doing...

Author: By Ensign M. J. roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 6/25/1943 | See Source »

...same vein, congrats to Frank Pinet for successfully promoting a Junior F.P. last week, weighing in at seven and one-half-pounds...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 4/23/1943 | See Source »

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