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TOBACCO. Cigarettes, which can be brought back to the U.S. in "reasonable" quantities, are priced lowest at the duty-free shops in Shannon, Johannesburg and Tokyo ($2.40 per carton). Elsewhere they cost 25? to $1 more. Caution: locally manufactured versions of many U.S. brands are sold in parts of Europe and Africa. To some Americans they do not taste the same as their regular smokes. The point of manufacture is printed on each carton...
...entering into any new ones. It seemed not unreasonable to ask that Harvard refuse to allow the American military to train its students to murder Indochinese with rifles and cannon and bombs. We won a victory against ROTC. Col. Pell packed up and went back to the Pentagon; Shannon Hall is now a day-care center...
...fare of as little as $180 round trip for groups of ten who buy from $70 to $149 each worth of meals, lodging and sightseeing along with their tickets. Two weeks ago Irish Aer Lingus announced a $500 first-class, 14-to-28-day fare from New York to Shannon, and an unlimited-stay economy fare of $320 in the off season...
...example, allows a person of 25 or less to fly to one European city and return from another. Irish-Aer Lingus offers the widest choice of all -four different cities. The deal: fly into one Continental city, return from another, and stop over in Dublin or Shannon both coming and going...
Many scientists shared the Administration's reservations. James Shannon, a director of the NIH from 1955 to 1968, argued that biomedical research could no longer be judiciously balanced if the attack on one specific problem was assigned to a special authority. Philip Lee, chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, warned that "a separate cancer agency would immediately create competition for funds and scientific talent...