Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STILL HAVE HAVANA, boasted an ad last week in the New York Times Magazine and other newspapers for the Garcia y Vega, Inc. cigar company, which has access to nearly half of the pre-Castro leaf still warehoused in the U.S. And yes, Garcia y Vega has the promotional services of one of the more fascinating authors in the nation. In return for mailing in ten bands from the company's Elegantes or Gallantes (list price: two for 250), a cigar smoker can get a free copy of To Seek a Newer World (list: $4.95), a slim volume...
Dahomey, the birthplace of voodoo, undergoes a peculiar seasonal ritual. Ever since it gained independence from France in 1960, the tiny country of 2,300,000 people has regularly tossed out its government during the pre-Christmas season in odd-numbered years. Usually, the man who has served as chief bouncer is a general named Christophe Soglo, 58. Last week, right on schedule, Dahomey had its fourth coup in seven years. This time, it was a total surprise to Soglo, who was himself thrown out as President by a junta of his younger army subordinates...
...decompression unit was only used during labor. But evidence of more widespread benefits to mother and child have led to sequential applications of the device from about the 18th week of pregnancy onward. For the mother, says Heyns, decompression sessions encourage painless uterine contractions that may enhance pre-and postnatal development in the child. Evidence also indicates that the technique lowers the incidence of toxemia-a largely unexplained complication of pregnancy, which can be serious...
Touring Western Europe this month for a peek at pre-Christmas toy sales, Christiansen pronounced himself "sat isfied" - as well he might have been...
...burned scraps. But four of his workbooks of self-history are available for study-at 26, Dylan sold them to the Lockwood Library of the State University of New York for $101. Others may yet turn up, but these are enough to discount fully the romantic belief of his pre-hippie worshipers, who liked to think that their boozy, wenching golden boy had reached out carelessly and seized his lovely lines as they drifted into his alcoholic haze...