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...cynical citizens assumed that the law was meant to protect the cigarettes produced by the state tobacco monopoly against competition from imported cigarettes (whose sales depend much more heavily on advertising), U.S. tobaccomen began to worry lest the U.S. Government take a cue from Britain and Italy. They found scant comfort in news that the U.S. Public Health Service has just decided to set up a panel to study the relationship between smoking and cancer...
...document. Said U.S. Observer Charles S. Rhyne, past president of the American Bar Association and current chairman of its special Committee on World Peace Through the Rule of Law: "It's the best statement of international law that exists." But lip service to international law is scant guarantee of international peace, said Rhyne. "unless a structure is created permitting the peaceful settlement of disputes." Otherwise, "it seems inevitable that the gargantuan military establishments created for our protection, and which are suspended over all of us like a sword of Damocles, may ultimately be used for our mutual destruction...
...Basta cón Liz (Enough of Liz),"and Milan's earnest Corriere della Sera austerely vowed to "try not to publish anything concerning the infernal Elizabeth for 24 hours.'' But with some $20 million already sunk in the seemingly bottomless Cleopatra, 20th Century-Fox had scant choice but to try to make a virtue of the peccadilloes of its irreplaceable star. Where Fox President Spyros Skouras last month jetted to Rome in a frantic effort to suppress Liz's infatuation for Burton, the studio now turned resignedly wry. Joining in the tastelessness, Cleopatra Director Joseph...
...neat, easy-to-reach groups, has two bucket seats in front, and a bucket bench for two in the rear. With a fiber-glass body mounted on a steel chassis and an engine of 300 h.p. or more, the Avanti will go from standing to 60 m.p.h. in a scant 6.7 sec.-a performance rivaling that of the hottest European sports cars. It is expected to sell for about...
Under current treaty arrangements, the U.S. has virtual veto power over the use of force by the Nationalists. But in Washington there was scant support for an invasion. Although State Department experts agreed that severe economic troubles have greatly weakened Mao's regime, most were skeptical that any commando raids by Chiang would touch off a general revolt. The U.S. also could not believe that Khrushchev would sit back and watch the Chinese Communists fall, whatever his disagreements with his rival in Peking. Still, the question of support for the Nationalists was not easily dismissed...