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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unblended note in the proceed ings was struck by a Parisian toxicologist who tactlessly told the audience that "un deniably, the immoderate use of tobacco threatens the health." But although Presi dent Charles de Gaulle (once a two-pack-a-day man) long ago swore off smoking on doctors' advice, the toxicologist's speech, unlike the rest of the festivities, was not broadcast over France's govern ment-owned radio-TV network. For to bacco has been a government monopoly in France since 1811, when Napoleon noticed an ostentatiously bejeweled woman at a Tuileries ball and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Nicot's Weed | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...sometimes touching vignette of the Russia of Alexander I. The camera follows a huge, strong, good-natured but deaf and dumb peasant, played by Anatol Kochetkov, who is taken from his plow to serve at his mistress' city house. Her whims and the cowardice of the other servants then proceed to ruin his romances, first with a peasant girl, and then with Mumu...

Author: By Randall A. Collins, | Title: Mumu and the Colt | 3/27/1961 | See Source »

apanese Government yesterday ap Edwin O. Reischauer, director of rvard-Yenching Institute and Pro of Japanese History, as United Ambassador. Reischauer leaves to Washington to address the War and confer with Under-Secretary A. Bowles. After about a month he will proceed to Japan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Picked | 3/16/1961 | See Source »

...defense policy, the Administration has decided on a buildup of non-nuclear forces to lessen the U.S.'s dependence on nuclear weapons and broaden its range of possible military action in future crises (see Defense), but the buildup is going to proceed pretty slowly. Confronted by an already massive budget. President Kennedy has decided to hold the increase in defense spending to less than $2 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Reigning Consensus | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

Late every night in Connecticut, lights go out in the cities and towns, and citizens by tens of thousands proceed zestfully to break the law. The law thus flouted, probably more intensively than ever Prohibition was, undertakes the ineffable task of forbidding anyone to use "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception.'' The penalty can be rough (a $50 fine and as much as a year in prison). And. of course, there is always a witness to the crime-but as though to make the law completely unenforceable Connecticut forbids spouses from testifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Consortium in Connecticut | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

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