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...Myers held a special stockholders' meeting to change bylaws in order to allow diversification, and American Tobacco said it was "seriously studying a number of companies." At the same time, the industry is expanding into the tobacco business in foreign countries, where growth is faster and doctors are quieter. Lorillard is rolling its Kents and Newports in Hong Kong and Luxembourg, Liggett & Myers its L. & M.s in Mexico and Switzerland. Philip Morris has just opened Europe's most modern cigarette factory in Neuchátel, Switzerland...
Time to Begin? Saigon seemed quieter after Khiem flew off to Europe. For once, the assorted Buddhists, students, workers and officers seemed content to scheme behind the scenes rather than demonstrate in the streets. At week's end, Khanh announced that the 13 officers and seven civilians behind September's abortive "coupette" would soon go on trial, facing possible death sentences. Then, at a news conference, Khanh proclaimed the power of the South Vietnamese Air Force, which he said could deliver "one, two or three-ton bombs into North Viet Nam or even southern China...
...quieter tone of current editorial comment on the campaign suggests that news analysis is being restored to its proper role as a valuable adjunct to, but not the main instrument of, good reporting. Not that the working newsman has surrendered his privilege of presenting the news within the light of his own convictions, but at the moment, there are few campaign issues for newsmen to have convictions about. The polls show Goldwater far behind; liberal reporters see little to bother them beyond reporting a clash of personalities...
Like so many affairs of their kind, the New York riots followed an isolated incident that in other, quieter times would have passed almost unnoticed in history's larger march. It took place on Thursday morning a fortnight ago, on a sidewalk in Manhattan's predominantly white East 70s. For reasons now lost in a tangle of differing tales, a white apartment-house superintendent turned a hose on a group of Negro teenagers. The kids threw bottles and ashcan lids at the man, and three of them, including a 15-year-old named James Powell, chased him into...
...mumbles them inaudibly and distracts the customers by giggling, wriggling, itching, twitching, wearing a wig, dancing a jig, and crossing his eyes till he practically looks out of his ears. People who did not see him on Broadway will probably think he is just a somewhat shorter, somewhat quieter Jerry Lewis. People who did will wonder what makes him tic, and wistfully murmur: " Autre temps, autre Morse...