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...Good, there goes another smoker.'" While many tobaccophobes maintain that their aim is to "educate" smokers, they have not in the past been noticeably successful-as witness a turn-of-the-century campaign to censor a nursery rhyme because Old King Cole "called for his pipe." In a fit of moral fervor, the town fathers in Longboat...
...music of the Chieftains is an amalgam of two distinct Irish traditions: the single-voiced, unaccompanied pipe tunes of the folk people, and the richer, harmonized rustle of the Irish harp. It is the careful blending of the two that gives the Chieftains their special sound. Superficially, that sound seems fairly unsophisticated, resembling something halfway between a Renaissance dance ensemble and a bluegrass band. Bluegrass, of course, owes much to British folk music...
Widener - Tremendous if you smoke a pipe or feel like a fossil. Actually, it does sound impressive to say you studied here, and there are a few good stalls on 'B' level, but be on the lookout for World War I draft evaders who have yet to find their...
...time was an apprentice pipefitter on the line. "The men watched their language when I was around," she admitted, "so I had to watch mine." At Prudhoe Bay, petite Kathleen Gotten, 26, was a warehouse checker. Among her duties: helping to get 17,000-lb. sections of pipe moving on rollers as they were being cleaned. The women on the pipeline, although their bedrooms are sometimes side by side with the men's, encountered few problems in coed living. "They're treated just like everyone else," said one electrician. "I walk down the halls in my shorts. If they...
Green tea was on the tables in front of the men. Mao sipped his as he talked; Ford stoked up his pipe. Mao dominated his side of the talk. The other Chinese said very little. Mao rested his head back against his chair and when he talked, he would roll it toward his interpreter and speak directly at her instead of at the Americans. She listened and watched his lips closely. His difficulty in forming words is apparently the result of strokes. Sometimes Miss Tang did not understand what Mao said. She would repeat the sentence and he would...