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Word: piping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barony of Gen. Sylvester T. Del Corso, a former Army Colonel with the habit of keeping his office clock four hours fast. Del Corso appeared on televised hearings of the Scranton Commission last summer, sporting a complacent smile and carrying a large rock and a length of steel pipe which he claimed students had thrown at his men. Corso had achieved fame in Ohio before Kent by denouncing Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes as a tool of black revolutionaries and Communists, and by blaming permissiveness and a Communist conspiracy for ghetto riots. His Guard...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: I.F. Stone: Exposing Kent State | 2/16/1971 | See Source »

...Because pipe and cigar smokers rarely inhale deeply, says the new report, they are only slightly more susceptible to lung cancer than nonsmokers. But pipe smokers can develop cancer of the mouth or lip. Many pipe puffers and cigar chompers do draw smoke down as far as the larynx. As a result, their chances of developing cancer of the throat are three to seven times greater than those of people who avoid smoking of any kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Warning on Smoking | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...Kept up the heat on steel. The Cabinet Committee let it be known that it was still studying steel prices, and the Administration did not hurry to resume talks with foreign governments about ex tending the import quotas. Steelmen expect to raise prices on bars, rods, pipe and sheet this spring. The obvious message from the White House is that the companies had better not boost them more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Nixon's New Keep-Them-Guessing Policy | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...prevent the $1 billion line's 180° oil from melting Alaska's permafrost, the report urged that only 52% of the pipe be buried underground, the rest to run aboveground with crossings for big game animals and protection for fish spawning grounds. Oil companies would be liable for all damage caused by oil spills. Because a federal court has enjoined the pipeline builders, and final approval awaits various public hearings in Alaska next month, the Interior report is still "tentative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Week's Watch | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

...which will be on ABC's Wide World of Sports. The company also will provide $100,000 in prizes for a women's tennis tournament, the "Virginia Slims Women's Invitational." In the sliest move of all, American Brands is considering television promotion of ban-exempt pipe tobacco under such famous cigarette names as Pall Mall, Tareyton and Silva Thins; even the packs will be cigarette size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: To Beat the Ban | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

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